> On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 10:49:30AM -0500, Nelson Minar wrote:
> > >Perhaps when the dust settles from the 1.2 port, it might be possible
> > >to arrange more formal and detailed visibility into what work is
> > >being done, what's under consideration, what's of interest, and progress.
> > I'd like to see more information about the porting process myself, but
> > that's asking the porting team to do even *more* work. The old rules
> > for Java made doing a Linux-style port awkward; things had to be
> > discussed in secret, code couldn't be released, etc. What's the impact
> > of the new community source licensing? Maybe we can open up the
> > porting process some? I haven't reviewed the licenses well enough.
>
> I've been paying attention to this as well, and (unfortunately) I
> haven't been able to find anything more specific than press releases
> about semi-open-source JDK development on Sun's site. I'd like to help
> with the port to 1.2, but it seems pointless to acquire a 1.1 source
> license in order to do so.
Am I the only person on this list who *doesn't* want to help finish the port?
:-) I recall an old truism about too many cooks -- as well as some theorems from
parallel processing about the difficulties of over-partitioning certain
problems.
The paucity of information on Sun's site is surprising. The help they're
providing for an OS that they don't control is remarkable; it's a bit out of
character for them *not* to turn this into a publicity juggernaut. And I doubt
they're being low-key in order to avoid offending Microsoft. :-)
Nathan Meyers
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