From owner-freebsd-java Wed Mar 27 1:22:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mailer2.webgiro.com [213.162.131.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA77037B41B for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 01:22:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from webgiro.com (mailer2.webgiro.com [213.162.131.18]) by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0789068469; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:22:25 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3CA18F65.E5350074@webgiro.com> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:22:45 +0100 From: Andrzej Bialecki Organization: WebGiro AB X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Behlendorf Cc: "Koster, K.J." , 'Aditya' , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [press@apache.org: PRESS RELEASE: ASF Reaches Agreement with Sun to Allow Open Source Java Implementations] References: <20020326235727.B1335-100000@yez.hyperreal.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brian Behlendorf wrote: > This does *not* mean that Sun will automatically release their reference > implementations or their own Java technology under open source licenses. > I won't speculate at this point as to whether they will; there's no doubt > in my mind, though, that someone else will do so. So, the porting work > being done here with Sun's VM still might not go open source. There's > always a hope, though. I have a more pessimistic scenario for you... What if Sun says: "ok, we release the specs, so you can do independent implementations, but to stay competitive, from now on we are not going to disclose the sources for our JVMs..." Sun is vitally interested in controlling the Java platform, so if they give with one hand they need to take with the other hand somewhere else... Andrzej -- -------------------------------------------- Andrzej Bialecki, Chief System Architect WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) -------------------------------------------- FreeBSD developer (http://www.freebsd.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message