From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 22 16:54:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA04116 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 16:54:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA04104 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 16:54:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA04123; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 17:54:11 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 17:54:11 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199608222354.RAA04123@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: Warner Losh Cc: Chuck Robey , didier@omnix.fr.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JDK 1.02 In-Reply-To: <199608221434.IAA10405@rover.village.org> References: <199608221434.IAA10405@rover.village.org> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > : The jdk in ports/current is 1.02, and the kaffe there specifically needs > : at least that version to run. > > The JDK in ports is the Solaris Sparc version. There is no JDK 1.0.2 > native port to FreeBSD at this time. And given Sun's recent 'attitude' regarding Java, there is *very* little chance of one happening. Sun is getting very propriatary (sp?) about Java, and the Linux developers were forced to remove their port of the JDK from ftp sites after being 'contacted' by Sun's lawyers. Sun is no longer 'open' about Java now that they've got enough mindshare to keep momentum going. It's a pretty cheap way of doing business by first promising openness and then renigging on it, but it's only too common in business nowadays. Nate