On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Paolo Ciccone wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 04:39:07PM -0500, Derek Glidden wrote:
[snip]
> > It looks like either someone at Inprise or at Sun isn't playing fair.
>
> We actually are. We didn't say that this is a clean port, in fact we
> are giving credit to Blackdown for the port. This has been done with
> the press at the Java Expo in New York and I personally posted here
> and on /. about our use of the early patches from Blackdown. The story
> is simple, we took the patches for 1.2.1 and started working on
> 1.2.2. From that early effort, fundamental to start the port, we
> actually added a lot of other stuff. The AWT/Motif for example has
> been completely replaced and a lot of other fixes have been added.
> This is truly a collective achievement, starting froim the early
> effort of Blackdown and then accelerated by Sun and Inprise and
> brought to a level of stability and performance that we feel is
> acceptable before the release of 1.3/Hotspot.
>
> My previous post, that you quoted, was about the RC1/RC3 naming, the
> two ports are indeed different and I wanted to clarify some of the
> confusion.
I don't really mean to be a bastard here, but here's an excerpt from one
of your postings to this list earlier today:
The Sun/Inprise port is not the same of Blackdown's, that's why the release
number is different. The Sun/Inprise port is actually the latest codebase
from Sun and includes several fixes to Swing that were found in the stock
1.2.2 release.
What were we supposed to think? As well, I've read three different press
articles on this today, and none of them contained the word "Blackdown".
If Inprise/Sun wanted to give credit to the Blackdown team for providing
a base for their further work, I would have expected something, especially
since the press releases for this were delayed several days. It's not like
Sun doesn't know about the Blackdown team, they made them a licensee last
year with great fanfare.
Scott
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