On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 04:39:07PM -0500, Derek Glidden wrote:
>
> Not to dis you or your company's efforts, but if this is actually a
> "clean" implementation of the JDK straight from Sun sources and never
> having touched the Blackdown code, then I find the contents of
> jdk1.2.2/jre/README.linux to be rather suspicious:
>
> README.linux for Java 2 SDK Version 1.2.1 for Linux, pre-release 1
> Steve Byrne
> 29/8/1999
>
> This is the Blackdown Java-Linux port of the Java 2 SDK Version 1.2.1.
>
> [etc...]
>
> It looks like either someone at Inprise or at Sun isn't playing fair.
> Either that or this is some bizarre remnant of applying patches to the
> base JDK source from Blackdown mods, in which case, it's still not fair
> to claim this as a "clean" implementation not related to the Blackdown
> effort.
>
> If I were any of the Blackdown porters, I would find a good friend
> immediately to pull Sun's knife from my back.
>
It doesn't matter who did the work on it. Sun owns the rights to
any work done to their JDK. When the Blackdown group sends patches
back to Sun, Sun can do with those patches what they want, including
give them to Inprise to do their own work.
BAPper
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