Apparently not. >From Neal Gafter's recent blog posting:
"...even though I am a contributor to openjdk7, I do not have a license to Oracle's patents that are necessarily infringed by the use of the openjdk7 source base. This is a very confusing position for the organizer of an open-source effort to take." http://gafter.blogspot.com/2010/08/couple-of-comments-on-defender-methods.html -Dario On Aug 31, 10:29 am, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> wrote: > Is OpenJDK independent from Oracle ? > > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 16:24, Robert Casto <[email protected]> wrote: > > I very much like where this thread is headed. > > > Having viable options with Java that Oracle can not touch sounds like a win > > for the community. There is a lot of value in those libraries that can be > > leveraged by a developer. That makes them productive and of benefit to a > > company. If all we have to do is change the underlying VM to something that > > is safe from Oracle, then so be it. I'm sure that VM would get a lot more > > attention from the community to make it great for production use. > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin Wright > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> Funny really, in OS design the small core, big libs approach has long been > >> preferred. > > >> The windows NT MicroKernel dates back to 1993 > >> The original Unix Kernel, 1973 > > >> In programming languages, it's not so clear-cut. LISP dates back to 1958, > >> and even then you could define your own control constructs within the > >> language - the actual spec is VERY small. > > >> C++ and derivatives (including Java, C#) broke from this, with > >> higher-level constructs such as `for`, `switch` and `while` being deeply > >> embedded at the library level and in the VM. Clojure, Scala and F# are > >> once > >> again pulling the pendulum back again to the small kernel, big libs idea > >> (working with the VM as necessary), and LLVM is doing the same sort of > >> thing > >> at a lower level. For example, tail-call optimisation against the JVM is > >> currently achieved through a technique known as "trampolining" ( > >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_recursion#Implementation_methods) > > >> So perhaps with the shifting trends in languages, a lighter weight VM > >> really is the right way to go, especially if VMKit & co. can be used to > >> allow us to get at all those juicy open-source libs... > > >> On 31 August 2010 13:25, Miroslav Pokorny > >> <[email protected]>wrote: > > >>> The reason Java became the most popular platform on the planet is because > >>> of all the oss libraries. Nothing out there beats or even comes close in > >>> comparison. Good luck with such a richness of choice and quality in dotnet > >>> land. Maybe java is not quite as fancy as c# but in the end we are all > >>> most > >>> of the time just the guy who adds glue between one library and something > >>> else. Maybe Java is a bit more verbose or not as elegant...but in the end > >>> that does not matter, because what we lose in elegance and language > >>> features > >>> is more than offseted by magnitudes with oss. > > >>> -- > >>> 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]<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups > >>> .com> > >>> . > >>> For more options, visit this group at > >>>http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > >> -- > >> Kevin Wright > > >> mail/google talk: [email protected] > >> wave: [email protected] > >> skype: kev.lee.wright > >> twitter: @thecoda > > >> -- > >> 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]<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups > >> .com> > >> . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >>http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > > -- > > Robert Casto > >www.robertcasto.com > > > -- > > 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]<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups > > .com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- 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.
