begin quoting Darren New as of Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:29:56AM -0700: > Doug wrote: > >IBM had VisualAge for Cobol which, if it was like their VisualAge for > >Smalltalk > >and VisualAge for Java, ran on IBM's universal VM(UVM). So while the > >standard Sun > >JVM might be tough to do it with, IBM had already done this with their UVM. > > Sure. I was only talking about the JVM, which (as far as I know) doesn't > support things like decimal arithmetic natively. Just as an example.
Aren't the languages that support decimal arithmetic out of favor these days? > >Just because it is running does not mean Microsoft will not threaten their > >patented IP is in it and want you to stop using it, pay them millions, or > >just use Windows instead of your favorite other OS. Do you know for a > >fact that the mono CLR is completely free of Microsoft patented stuff? > > No. Do you know for a fact that Java is? :-) How would you possibly go > about proving such a thing? I'd trust Sun to be less malicious than Microsoft. But proof? Proof is hard. -- Embrace, extend, patent, then sue. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
