Nathan Meyers wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:49:35AM -0700, Nelson Minar wrote:
> > What would be *really* great is if there were an open source Java
> > implementation that we could all contribute to and avoid all these
> > politics. My impression is the Java design is stable enough that this
> > is reasonable to do, but that it's a lot of work to implement.
>
> Ah, but there is: Kaffe is alive and well and benefitting greatly from
> user contribution. You can't contribute if you're polluted by any Sun
> anti-open-source licenses, but the rest of can.
>
> The current implementation is almost 1.1-complaint and has parts of 1.2.
> The Java spec is huge, of course, and getting the rest of the way to
> a full implementation isn't a quick job. But, as far as I can tell,
> Kaffe is by far the strongest of the open source Java implementations.
>
I thought kaffe died when the company that wrote it got bought out my
M$.
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