On Jan 23, 3:09 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > I wonder if perhaps it would be in Apple's best financial interest to > open source their JDK implementation so that we hobbyists could > contribute, providing the necessary man hours needed to get the latest > JDK running under OSX? If the Java market is truly unimportant to > them, but they want to not lose it entirely, this might seem like a > reasonable way to go.
As a commercial licensee of Sun Java, Apple may not be able to open source their implementation (remember, even Sun's Java 6 isn't open- source... OpenJDK 6 is a separate back-port of OpenJDK 7). But in general, I agree: I think a lot of people believe that if there is a future for Java on the Mac, it'll come from OpenJDK, specifically the BSD porters group. --Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
