At 11:42 AM 6/4/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:>=20 > Personally, I think that IBM would almost immediately fork it (if the > license permitted) and that would be the beginning of the end of Java. >
That=B9s crazy talk. While IBM is definitely way evil (don't forget, Microsoft learned all their dirty tricks from IBM and IBM has the most evil software patents on probably everything down to if statements -- in fact they may have the patent to evil itself ;-) Hi greg) and loves to fork open source projects and make them proprietary while claiming to be a friend, they already have their own Java.
Andy, the problem for them is that their own Java cannot be offered widely because of the licensing agreement with Sun.
The only way you can download the IBM Jdk under Windows is as part of another IBM product.
They would obviously like to escape that.
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