But it does matter how it was claimed. If the work was done by
Inprise it is one thing, if it is only relabeling of Blackdown
code, it is another.
This is the text:
"Inprise and Sun Microsystems have taken a big step toward
maintaining open, standards-based network computing architectures
that utilize technologies like Linux and the Java 2 platform,"
said Dale Fuller, Interim CEO and President of Inprise."
I think it is the drawback of the "Open Source" model. Technically,
you can take any code and release it as yours after few changes.
It is interesting what guys from Inprise think about it?
Jacob Nikom
Brian Pomerantz wrote:
>
> 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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