> Is it? http://freenetproject.org/snapshots/ is quoted in every single
> release notice. Because I did not know it contained anything that should
> not be known about.

Just because someone can theoretically navigate to the URL doesn't mean 
anything.

> That would be far too late. They would sue us for damages. Whether they
> won or not, it'd be an almighty mess.

Firstly, this is nonsense, there is no way that Sun would go to such
lengths over a minor (and debatable) license infringement.  Secondly,
even if this were not the case, Sun is the least of our legal worries.

> Yes indeed. The common sense view is that we are distributing the Sun
> JRE without license. At least within the community of people who read
> the mailing lists, which is pretty huge if you count the possible
> readers from the archives.

Sorry, I didn't notice that you had conducted a comprehensive survey - 
how many of the respondants were lawyers?

> > I have no problem getting responses from Sun when I need to - perhaps 
> > you aren't asking politely?
> 
> Perhaps I don't ask politely because their code and the fact that it
> hasn't been fixed in over a year and now they are rushing ahead with
> AIO, functional programming and other such bullshit when nobody in their
> right mind would write a server app using java.nio demonstrates that
> they are total fuckwits?

I guess that answers my question.

Ian.

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Ian Clarke                                                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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