From owner-freebsd-java Wed Mar 27 9:46:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from yez.hyperreal.org (ar1-nat-sp.collab.net [63.251.56.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B49BC37B42F for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:46:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3205 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Mar 2002 17:46:57 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Mar 2002 17:46:57 -0000 Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:46:57 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Behlendorf X-X-Sender: brian@yez.hyperreal.org To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: Brian Behlendorf , "Koster, K.J." , 'Aditya' , Subject: Re: [press@apache.org: PRESS RELEASE: ASF Reaches Agreement with Sun to Allow Open Source Java Implementations] In-Reply-To: <3CA18F65.E5350074@webgiro.com> Message-ID: <20020327094422.E1335-100000@yez.hyperreal.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > 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..." Yep, there are lots of pessimistic scenarios in this. The question is whether anyone will care if/when high quality open source JVMs start to appear. > 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... It's always wise to view Sun's moves, like any large company's, with a degree of skepticism. Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message