Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 00:45:38 -0400 From: "John Daniels" <jmd526@hotmail.com> To: java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: JDK2 binary update Message-ID: <F163bhsKd6QR7j1HaKt00003c3b@hotmail.com>
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 02:45:11 +0930 Greg Lewis wrote:
>I'm hopeful things are looking up on the licensing front, so I'm not
>sure we need to express displeasure to them at the moment :).
I would have thought that there would have been at least some sort of
announcement by now, if only to say "we are working with FreeBSD to get this
done..." Especially in light of: 1) we have met Sun's qualifications for
moving forward (at least for a couple of months now), and 2) Microsoft's
recent announcements:
1-support for C#/Net on FreeBSD, and
2-no Java in Windows XP when shipped -- further evidence that
they have abandoned compromising Java (embrace, extend, own)
for a strategy of direct competition
If history is any guide, MS will compete aggressively with a strong product
and low pricing. Building a strong Java community on *BSD could have helped
Sun delay/deter MS. Instead, it now seems that FreeBSD is getting more
attention from MS than Sun. FreeBSD is the perfect vehicle for MS to prove
that they can play nice with Unix and Open Source, while blunting the
advance of Gnu/Linux (witness MS's recent bashing of the GPL). In addition,
MS is already the largest Software Vendor for Mac's and that is likely to
continue with OS X (perhaps extending to *BSD's in the future?)
It's only a matter of time before a major vendor supports a next generation
programming language on FreeBSD. The longer that it takes Sun to welcome
FreeBSD into the Java community, the less I care if that is Sun or MS.
John
Copyright 2001 John Daniels. All rights reserved.
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