Hello, I'm interested in having a freely available Java system, which seemed as good a reason as any to start lurking on this list lately.
I've been mulling over what I've seen in the archives here, what I know of the free java world, free software, communities, marketing, and various and sundry other things and an idea popped into my head. Perhaps, like many others, it's a dumb one, but I thought I'd lob it out there just the same: Why not start out with j2me? *) It'd be breaking new ground - something no one has done before in the 'free' world (to my knowledge at least). That, to me at least, would increase the fun quotient. *) It's small, which would make it easier to get running - or at least easier to make it complete. *) It's simple. To my knowledge, in order to stay small, most implementations are interpreters (possibly assisted in hardware through things like Jazelle). *) Modulo space saving optimizations, it could then be used as a launch pad for "bigger and better things" should we so desire. *) Perhaps there are some financial incentives for corporations to get involved. J2SE is "free beer", so the impetus to work on a free version mostly comes from a desire to have an open source Java available, without the practical incentives of a free beer system that other open source projects have had working in their favor. Just a thought... -- David N. Welton - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Linux, Open Source Consulting - http://www.dedasys.com/
