From owner-freebsd-java Wed Mar 27 16:26:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from gnuppy.monkey.org (wsip68-15-8-100.sd.sd.cox.net [68.15.8.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7657A37B41C for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:26:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from billh by gnuppy.monkey.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16qNk2-0000Wv-00; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:26:10 -0800 Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:26:10 -0800 To: Brian Behlendorf Cc: Andrzej Bialecki , Brian Behlendorf , "Koster, K.J." , 'Aditya' , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [press@apache.org: PRESS RELEASE: ASF Reaches Agreement with Sun to Allow Open Source Java Implementations] Message-ID: <20020328002610.GA2023@gnuppy.monkey.org> References: <3CA18F65.E5350074@webgiro.com> <20020327094422.E1335-100000@yez.hyperreal.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020327094422.E1335-100000@yez.hyperreal.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Bill Huey 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, Mar 27, 2002 at 09:46:57AM -0800, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > 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. It's pretty difficult to do so because of the size of shear size of the JVM and because it's a moving target. Slightly off topic, but the Mono folks have a better chance of getting a .NET compatible system useable more so that the JVM folks it seems. I'm quite interested in CLR and CIL in .NET in that having an universal typing system across all languages targetted to it is very cool. > > 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. It's good to know folks of your stature lurk on this list. Brian's one of the key folks in Apache for those that don't know. Thanks for dropping a note. ;-) bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message