So many reasons. The most obvious ones:
- Cheap ploy to court iPhone developers. - GNUstep is a lot more open than java. GNUstep is AFAIK open source primarily written by linux hackers. That'd be quite different and would feel a lot more open even before Oracle made the capital mistake of blowing up their own "openness" credibility by suing google based on patents. (Just to beat the dead horse some more: Whether or not Oracle is justified in trying to keep the java platform unified, the way they've gone about suing google is cyanide to the idea that you can trust OpenJDK for this sort of stuff, and very dangerous to the open source community. Possibly a good idea, but they should have found some other way). - On embedded devices I can see the point of not wanting a platform that is effectively designed around having a hefty VM for it to run fast. (J2ME notwithstanding, but that has its own problems). On Nov 24, 11:07 pm, CKoerner <[email protected]> wrote: > If Blu-Ray players choose Java, why not Snap? > > http://snap.sonydeveloper.com/pages/about/ > > Sony’s Networked Application Platform is a project designed to > leverage the open source community to build and evolve the next > generation application framework for consumer electronic devices. […] > > The foundation upon which this project is base comes from the GNUstep > community, whose origin dates back to the OpenStep standard developed > by NeXT Computer Inc (now Apple Computer Inc.). While Apple has > continued to update their specification in the form of Cocoa and Mac > OS X, the GNUstep branch of the tree has diverged considerably. -- 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.
