On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 10:52:02PM +0100, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> AFAIK Sun has all the right to use our code. But todays press release
> is a slap in the face for us!
Juergen, as I posted in other messages we are actually giving you guys
credit for all the hard work you have done in the 1.2, 1.2.1 version.
Unfortunately both press releases didn't have any mention but we have
already released interviews with the press were we acknoledge your
work. As you can immagine, if we wanted to hide anything, we could
have change the files. That was not our intention at all.
As I said before this is really a cooperative effort that shows what
can be obtained when there's will to improve things. You guys gave us
the ground to convince the right people to sponsor this project. We
have, in our modest opinion, produced a production quality JDK. If the
two things can be merged this will go just at benefit of all
community. As you know very well porting and testing the JDK is quite
a task. It has not been cheap to do it and we took the risk of doing
it while another port was under way. As somebody said, competition is
good, especially in a case like this where the outcome benefit only
the developers of Java applications. I believe that from today it's
clear to anybody that Linux is a viable platform for Java
applications.
On a similar like for JDK 1.3 Sun announced that they are going to do a
Linux port directly. At the same time Blackdown is working on early
code and we saw that some of the early patches are included in the
standard 1.3 code. At the same time IBM announced their porting
effort.
--
Paolo Ciccone
JBuilder dev.team
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