Sascha Brawer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jan 10, 2005, at 5:11 PM, Dalibor Topic wrote: > >> People wanting their implementations to be compatible with Sun is a >> no-brainer, even without a stick, as otherwise one couldn't run the >> existing code out there. > > I'm actually not so sure about this one. For free software hackers, the > answer surely is yes, but remember Microsoft's JVM?
Let's correct this quickly: Sun did not stop MS making a VM. They eventually got a court to agree that MS could not call it Java in a particular way that made carrying on with the VM useless to MS. But Sun couldn't stop MS from making a VM. For the same reason GNU don't call GCJ or Classpath "GNU-Java". Because if GNU called GCJ or Classpath "GNU-Java" then Sun's lawyers would have us over a barrell. I think the story about the Sun engineer is either mistaken somewhere or is from a Sun engineer with no understanding of (c). I doubt it's someone very senior. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
