You (Edward Ned Harvey) wrote: > > From: Alan Coopersmith [mailto:alan.coopersm...@oracle.com] > > Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 1:56 PM > > > > Edward Ned Harvey wrote > > > Was java anything other than a money pit for sun to dump cash into? > > Did > > > anybody ever pay for it? > > > > Yes - for instance, all the cell phone makers who paid Sun to license > > Java for their cell phones. > > It was dumb of me to assume nobody pays for java - just as it is sometimes > dumb when people assume nobody pays for solaris. > > Out of curiosity (and I know this is OT) ... Java is free to use, develop on, > and distribute. What do people pay for? > > When a cell phone mfgr pays for java, what are they using, that wasn't > available for free? > > Thanks for the enlightenment, sorry for the ignorance...
I've never read the license terms, but I do assume, that (in my simple words) the "re-distribution" of the JVM is not for free... Matthias -- Matthias Pfützner | Tel.: +49 700 PFUETZNER | Unsere Innovationsschwäche Lichtenbergstr.73 | mailto:matth...@pfuetzner.de | ist kein Mythos, sondern D-64289 Darmstadt | AIM: pfuetz, ICQ: 300967487 | sie ist real! Germany | http://www.pfuetzner.de/matthias/ | Hans-Olaf Henkel, BDI _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
