Freenet 0.7 does work on GCJ, although there are some performance issues (the big integer stuff is much faster than on Sun... I don't know why overall the node is slower, it would be interesting for somebody to investigate this!).
Java isn't a bad language really, but it's held back by Sun's refusal to open the JVM due to previous de-standardization by MS. On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 07:16:07PM +0000, Hannes Hauswedell wrote: > a general question: why does freenet use java? > if it is all about freedom as it says , it should not depend on (and thus > promote) non-free software! > i really like the spirit of it and i would like use it (and spread it ;) ), > but from an ideological point of view refuse to install non-free software on > my computer. > also the dependency on sun' java reduces portabaility by tieing the user to > certain operating systems and cpu-architectures. please consider free > alternatives over java or at least make it useable with gcj. > thank you very much and keep up the work > hannes hauswedell -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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