My theory (or wishful thinking): they're trying to sweet talk Apple into adding Blu-Ray to Macs.
It's really a pain not to have a Blu-Ray player on my Mac. -- Cédric On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]>wrote: > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Cédric -- 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.
