Is oracle going to make the jvm part proprietary?

This slashdot story is kind of worrisome. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/05/29/1711203/Java-Gets-New-Garbage-Collector-But-Only-If-You-Buy-Support?from=rss Do you all think this is the beginning of a trend? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: Is oracle going to make the jvm part proprietary?

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/05/29/1711203/Java-Gets-New-Garbage-Collector-But-Only-If-You-Buy-Support?from=rss Who cares? There are many classy JVM implementations from third parties like IBM. BG -- Baishampayan Ghose b.gh...@ocricket.com oCricket.com http://oCricket.com

Re: Is oracle going to make the jvm part proprietary?

Baishampayan Ghose b.gh...@ocricket.com writes: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/05/29/1711203/Java-Gets-New-Garbage-Collector-But-Only-If-You-Buy-Support?from=rss Who cares? There are many classy JVM implementations from third parties like IBM. Well, at least them IBM one is proprietary.

Re: Is oracle going to make the jvm part proprietary?

Fear not. G1 is in Open-JDK, so no one can forbid you use it anyway you see fit. The clause in EULA is simply a lawyer talk, to cover their asses if someone uses experimental feature in production and looses his data or crashes server. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You