Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:46:57 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@collab.net> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> Cc: Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>, "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>, 'Aditya' <aditya@grot.org>, <freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [press@apache.org: PRESS RELEASE: ASF Reaches Agreement with Sun to Allow Open Source Java Implementations] Message-ID: <20020327094422.E1335-100000@yez.hyperreal.org> In-Reply-To: <3CA18F65.E5350074@webgiro.com>
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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
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