We could play the jre game. If we can prove that fred runs substantially better on [sun|ibm] jre as opposed to [ibm|sun] jre we could make a deal with the respective company to use fred as example in their publicity wars.
>And what about Sun? Current freenet is Sun JVM dependent; I know the >problem that currently Kaffe doesn't work for freenet (and I think it >should be a major goal for the future), but this situation now can >help reaching Sun Microsystem. > >Cheers, > > Emanuele > > >On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:28:22PM -0700, pineapple wrote: >> I know this may sound funny, but did you try IBM? It >> seems that IBM is moving away from being a >> merchandising company (selling software/hardware) and >> moving more towards being a services based company, so >> maybe an anonymous distributed publishing system like >> freenet would be more of interest to them then it >> might to other companies. Also, IBM seems to have >> moved more towards embracing open source recently and >> they have also been active in grid computing which in >> some respects runs along the same lines as freenets >> distributed nature. It's possible that IBM management >> is not aware of the Freenet Project and would be >> interested in learning about the project and >> supporting it financially. _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
