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Date:      Mon, 17 Jan 2005 01:51:00 +0100
From:      Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I need a cuppa...
Message-ID:  <41EB0BF4.7070707@incubus.de>
In-Reply-To: <41EB0879.1090402@mac.com>
References:  <20050115210617.A20158@starfire.mn.org> <20050116041626.GB13042@osiris.chen.org.nz> <41E9F612.5030901@taborandtashell.net> <20050115233404.B20530@starfire.mn.org> <20050116060442.GA847@osiris.chen.org.nz> <41EA0B3F.3030209@incubus.de> <41EAA854.1040500@mac.com> <41EAFA51.8090207@incubus.de> <41EB0879.1090402@mac.com>

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Chuck Swiger wrote:

> If you choose not to see any distinction between software which is 
> freely available and comes with source code, and between other forms of 
> software which neither comes with source nor is free, fine.

No. "Open" has for a long time referred to "industry standard", before 
it was used for free software.  But java is neither.

mkb.



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