Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-27 Thread Santiago Gala
El viernes, 19 marz, 2004, a las 21:42 Europe/Madrid, Antonio Gallardo escribió: But if you start using some features locked to an specific OS, ... ...the terrorists have already won :) Now, C# is reasonably free with mono, provided you're clever enough to avoid .NET classes lock-in. Miguel de

Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-27 Thread Serge Knystautas
Santiago Gala wrote: In the client side, I saw a comment about modern Flash apps (more and more common), which said something like: Those Flash apps are like what java Applets should have been. +1. We ported a collection of casino games we'd written in applets into Flash 5 movies, and Flash

RE: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
I'm not sure about the quality and status of ikvm (java to c# assembly compiler), but some people (I think it was Miguel in Malaga) reported to me informally it was able to run tomcat. Any clue? None. But I have known the author for years. Very talented guy, and knows the bytecode level of

Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-25 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
On Mar 25, 2004, at 6:18 AM, David N. Welton wrote: Well, according to this, the 'discussion' is over: http://news.osdir.com/article491.html For this year, I think. I think the best thing that ASF community members can do for now, until the next news flareup, is in blogs, conversations etc, is

Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-25 Thread David N. Welton
Geir Magnusson Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Costin had some good suggestions for working deeper - like ensuring code here works on the OSS implementations (which is really just a form of compatibility testing...) That seems like something that would be beneficial without a huge amount of

Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-23 Thread Ben Hyde
On Mar 18, 2004, at 12:18 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: sheepish I wasn't subscribed to community@ until now, so if there's something there that wasn't xposted to general@, let me know... /sheepish http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/SummarizeList? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beware: content is public.

Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-19 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Costin Manolache wrote: Serge Knystautas wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Key ASF individuals are joining these discussions, on weblogs and various discussion forums. But the ASF as a whole is silent. In lieu of forming a statement for the ASF as a whole, what about organizing/encouraging/guiding

Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-19 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
On Mar 18, 2004, at 7:10 PM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Costin Manolache wrote: Serge Knystautas wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Key ASF individuals are joining these discussions, on weblogs and various discussion forums. But the ASF as a whole is silent. In lieu of forming a statement for the ASF as a

Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-19 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 01:46 PM 3/18/2004, Antonio Gallardo wrote: If you read the open letters there is clear they suggest an full GPL license, because if not maybe it can end (intentionally) in a fork. As Noel said already - GPL does not inhibit forking. The license does prohibit adopting the same name for a

RE: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-19 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Noel J. Bergman dijo: And if they do things that impinge on their own patents, the GPL says that you cannot use their code, even though it is under the GPL. This means MS cannot do fork by using own patents and redistribute without breaking the GPL license, this is the poison pill, right?

Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-19 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Hi William: William A. Rowe, Jr. dijo: At 01:46 PM 3/18/2004, Antonio Gallardo wrote: If you read the open letters there is clear they suggest an full GPL license, because if not maybe it can end (intentionally) in a fork. As Noel said already - GPL does not inhibit forking. The license does

Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-19 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: On Mar 18, 2004, at 7:10 PM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Costin Manolache wrote: Serge Knystautas wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Key ASF individuals are joining these discussions, on weblogs and various discussion forums. But the ASF as a whole is silent. In lieu of forming a

Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-19 Thread Serge Knystautas
Antonio Gallardo wrote: ie: MS can see the forking as a way to break the Java platform. They already tried to make it some years ago and failed. But make some harm. Even Sun sued them for this. The scenario is not easy: If Java is divided, we lose. I respectfully disagree. I think (some of) what

Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-19 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Noel J. Bergman wrote: What about starting by making sure Apache java projects _do_ work with the 2 open source JVMs that are mentioned in the article ? That would be a statement, much better than we like open source java, but our software doesn't run on it because it doesn't really matter.

Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-19 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Serge Knystautas dijo: Antonio Gallardo wrote: I see many wrong here. Just to refresh the mind: http://news.com.com/2100-1001_3-225523.html http://news.com.com/2100-1001_3-227105.html http://news.com.com/2100-1001_3-251401.html At the core of these discussions is that Microsoft wanted to

Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-18 Thread Brian McCallister
I suspect that getting a consensus from the ASF members, much less the community at large, as to a stance on open source Java will be pretty difficult. The ASF is made up of individuals, not a small number of which are intimately involved with each of the major JVM providers. I do think that

Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-18 Thread David N. Welton
Brian McCallister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suspect that getting a consensus from the ASF members, much less the community at large, as to a stance on open source Java will be pretty difficult. The ASF is made up of individuals, not a small number of which are intimately involved with each

Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-18 Thread Brian McCallister
On Mar 18, 2004, at 9:49 AM, Antonio Gallardo wrote: I have just a question: If Java goes GPL (as suggested by many opinion writters), it can clash with the ASF license? I remember discussions about the viral nature of (L)GPL in Java language. Then if Java goes (L)GPL it will infect the java

Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-18 Thread Costin Manolache
Serge Knystautas wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Key ASF individuals are joining these discussions, on weblogs and various discussion forums. But the ASF as a whole is silent. In lieu of forming a statement for the ASF as a whole, what about organizing/encouraging/guiding people who want to

RE: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-18 Thread Noel J. Bergman
What about starting by making sure Apache java projects _do_ work with the 2 open source JVMs that are mentioned in the article ? Which two? I've had a thought to try testing James under gcj at some point. RedHat has already done a whole bunch of Java-based Apache projects with gcj.

Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-18 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
sheepish I wasn't subscribed to community@ until now, so if there's something there that wasn't xposted to general@, let me know... /sheepish More inline : On Mar 18, 2004, at 11:21 AM, Leo Simons wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: the intention is to get involved snip/ really wanted to keep quiet

Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-18 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Brian McCallister dijo: On Mar 18, 2004, at 9:49 AM, Antonio Gallardo wrote: I have just a question: If Java goes GPL (as suggested by many opinion writters), it can clash with the ASF license? I remember discussions about the viral nature of (L)GPL in Java language. Then if Java goes

RE: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-18 Thread Noel J. Bergman
If you read the open letters there is clear they suggest an full GPL license, because if not maybe it can end (intentionally) in a fork. There is nothing in the GPL that talks about a fork. The argument for Sun to license their JVM under the GPL is that then Sun would be the only one who could

Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-18 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
David N. Welton wrote: Brian McCallister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suspect that getting a consensus from the ASF members, much less the community at large, as to a stance on open source Java will be pretty difficult. The ASF is made up of individuals, not a small number of which are intimately