Re: difference between Blackdown's JVM and Sun's?

2002-01-24 Thread Uncle George
Although this may be true, one can also say that SUN no longer gives 'others' any opportunities to port Java to other linux machines. For example it costed FreeBSD/JAVA some $3000 in ( their own ) legal costs to obtain a free license to distribute the java binaries. It also took a long time to ob

Re: difference between Blackdown's JVM and Sun's?

2002-01-24 Thread Joi Ellis
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Vladimir G Ivanovic wrote: > "MK" == Matthew Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MK> What differences are there between Sun's JVM and Blackdowns? > > I asked the same question privately of a member of the Blackdown team > and have not yet received a reply. > > I'm n

Re: difference between Blackdown's JVM and Sun's?

2002-01-24 Thread Calvin Austin
blackdown has additional ppc/sparc/arm ports. JMF, java3d , customized java web start, debian installer. java comm api. Also Blackdown give the opportunity for developers to contribute to the java on linux product. ie if you find a bug or want to change something its going to be easier to get the

Re: difference between Blackdown's JVM and Sun's?

2002-01-24 Thread Vladimir G Ivanovic
"MK" == Matthew Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MK> What differences are there between Sun's JVM and Blackdowns? I asked the same question privately of a member of the Blackdown team and have not yet received a reply. I'm not trying to be confrontational or start a flame war, but I would

difference between Blackdown's JVM and Sun's?

2002-01-24 Thread Matthew Kennedy
What differences are there between Sun's JVM and Blackdowns? Is the Blackdown organization some kind of Java licensee? Thanks Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta