Re: A question @Mark Wilaard (and other developer)

2006-09-07 Thread theUser BL
Now I have a little bit time, to reply to your comment (I will also write this reply in the forum at http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=18036tstart=0 ). Yeah thanks. Please also include my other replies if you see fit. Done. I think three different OpenSource implementations

Re: A question @Mark Wilaard (and other developer)

2006-09-07 Thread Tom Tromey
I think three different OpenSource implementations would be the worst case scenario, if Sun makes its Java OpenSource. FWIW, I tend to agree overall. Our experience merging libgcj with classpath was that the merge improved both -- sometimes the libgcj code was better, sometimes the classpath

Re: A question @Mark Wilaard (and other developer)

2006-09-06 Thread Chris Burdess
theUser BL wrote: And in which part is the GNU Classpath implementation better then Suns implementation? (from the technical point of view, not from the license side) ? You might like to look at http://builder.classpath.org/xml/SAXTest/ which shows the XML SAX API conformance status of

Re: A question @Mark Wilaard (and other developer)

2006-09-06 Thread Audrius Meskauskas
Chris Burdess wrote: Yes. This vexes me greatly, when there is pressure from the community to reproduce a bug-for-bug compatible class library, i.e. that we should try to code to match Sun's implementation instead of coding a good, bug-free implementation of the specification. But, as you

Re: A question @Mark Wilaard (and other developer)

2006-09-05 Thread theUser BL
Hi Roman. Now I have a little bit time, to reply to your comment (I will also write this reply in the forum at http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=18036tstart=0 ). What I'd find best for Java is something like we have in the BSD world. Friendly competing communities, with code

Re: A question @Mark Wilaard (and other developer)

2006-09-05 Thread Roman Kennke
Hi Patrick, Now I have a little bit time, to reply to your comment (I will also write this reply in the forum at http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=18036tstart=0 ). Yeah thanks. Please also include my other replies if you see fit. What I'd find best for Java is something like

Re: A question @Mark Wilaard (and other developer)

2006-09-05 Thread Audrius Meskauskas
And in which part is the GNU Classpath implementation better then Suns implementation? (from the technical point of view, not from the license side) ? Grab the CORBA COST testing suite from SourceForge and try on Sun's implementation. This mean alone helps against this kind of pride

Re: A question @Mark Wilaard (and other developer)

2006-09-05 Thread Mario Torre
Il giorno mar, 05/09/2006 alle 18.46 +, theUser BL ha scritto: I think three different OpenSource implementations would be the worst case scenario, if Sun makes its Java OpenSource. Ans I also think, that Suns sees so like I. And I think they want to make it OpenSource, to have _not_

Re: A question @Mark Wilaard (and other developer)

2006-09-04 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Patrick, On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 13:11 +, theUser BL wrote: Have a look at http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=18036tstart=0 there I have written a qustion at Mark and other developers. It would be nice and I would be happy, if you answer it. Seems you need to have to

Re: A question @Mark Wilaard (and other developer)

2006-09-04 Thread Roman Kennke
Hi Patrick. On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 13:11 +, theUser BL wrote: Have a look at http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=18036tstart=0 there I have written a qustion at Mark and other developers. IMO, it is not necessary and feasible to have The One OSS/F Java implementation. That's

Re: A question @Mark Wilaard (and other developer)

2006-09-04 Thread theUser BL
Seems you need to have to register for some sort of account on that site to post there, but feel free to quote or redistribute my response if you want. Yes. I have now posted also your answer in this forum (and this reply). Sun has in the past chosen to use and create licenses like SISSL and

Re: A question @Mark Wilaard (and other developer)

2006-09-04 Thread fchoong
Interesting quote about the CDDL from /.: quote Not to worry. Firefox is available under GPL. MPL was never widely used outside of Mozilla, and that chiefly in the period before Mozilla was widely used. At that, it's a better license than the CDDL. The CDDL specificly allows distribution of

A question @Mark Wilaard (and other developer)

2006-09-03 Thread theUser BL
Have a look at http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=18036tstart=0 there I have written a qustion at Mark and other developers. It would be nice and I would be happy, if you answer it. Greatings theuserbl