> Given SUN's payment of $200million to SCO (for not alot of stuff IMHO), the
> reliability of "SUN" as a "Linux partner" comes into question - slam Linux,
> then provide middleware for it.
how do you know what sun paid sco for?
IIRC, a Sun employee said it was 'drivers' and 'x86 related information' which I find hard to believe; $200million is a bit of cash to pay to a company who, quite frankly, is dying/dead/gone.
For that number, why not just buy the whole damn company?
>
> If SUN wishes to get the OSS world to start using Studio 11 as the compiler
> of choice for Linux, then SUN needs to mend ALOT of bridges with the OSS
> community - how about offering a version for FreeBSD, have double the
> participation?
I see, providing a compiler for freebsd will really help sun with linux
Porting the compiler to linux is a big step forward, now all sun needs
to do is show people it has a better software than the everyone else
I'd like to see the compiler included with Solaris too, iirc someone
told me it's being taken care of, i dont know, i guess it's wait and
see
No, providing a compiler for FreeBSD will expand the OSS communtiy, as FreeBSD people also contribute to OSS projects; it'll also raise the profile of Studio as more 'large projects' start to use it - heck, why not team up with Novell, and work with them to ship a 'Studio 11 optimised' version of their desktop operating system? allow them to bundle Studio 11 free of charge with their OpenSuSE and corporate desktop/workstation versions.
> money is made off the middleware, not the framework. As for an "internal
> debate" - excuse me Johnnathon, but who is running the company? make a damn
> decision, and those who don't like it, show them the door.
please, stop with that, the middleware only works because the
framework is stable. While i would like to see an opensource java all
the possible outcomes must be considered, give them time; in the
meantime if you want to contribute to java you can do so with the
current license, gpl zealots will only be happy if java is gpld anyway
nacho
Why not release it under CDDL and make life a little easier for alternative operating systems to port and certify Java for their platform?
Matty
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