--- Calvin Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Louis-David I will show you the code! Hop on over to
>
>
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/products/java2cs
>
> you can get all the Java 2 source code for no fee.
Ah, but what is your definition of free? Here is my
example. I was doing a little bit of work on the side
for a local company to make their database system Y2K
compliant. During the process I stumbled upon a bug in
the JDK. It was a pretty low level issue that I could
not work around cleanly, but I was able to fix it with
one line of code. Now that bug has been sitting in
Sun's database for over six months. I have sent the
engineer who was assigned the bug several messages
with no reply. Now I would have no problem using Sun's
JDK if I new that when problems like this arise I can
have a way out, but I don't. My two choices were: tell
Sun that I wanted to change the JDK to fix this bug
and lose all my profits because I would have to go
through compatability tests according to the license
or I could not tell Sun and ship a custom version of
the JDK for this one job. Well I'm sure you can all
guess what I did. These sorts of games go against the
whole point of having the source code to begin with.
Ken
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