Well, it's almost like they read java-linux
"In response to some disgruntled elements of the Java community, Sun
Microsystems in coming weeks will announce a new process that allows
non-Java licensees to have a role in defining new Java APIs across the
spectrum of Java classes."
Full story at
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| > Java Linux porting team politics. The folks who have donated their
| > effort to bringing Java to Linux - all of them - have done a wonderful
| > job. Thanks to you all!
Agreed.
| > >The big problem I have is the current closed
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| From: sbb / mime, , , [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| To: nelson / mime, , , [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Cc: java-linux / mime, , , [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: Open Java
| Date: Thursday, November 05, 1998 7:53AM
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| Nelson Minar writes:
| > I'd really hate to see this list get dragge
rces.
Part of that protection includes having a porting mailing list that's not open
to people who do not have sources because we talk about things in the sources
and sometimes even include diffs that have small parts of the sources in them.
> What we do need, in the research commu
Agreed.
--- big snip ---
>What we do need, in the research community, is a more open Java
>system. Something we can all hack on, experiment with. It's not going
>to come from Sun, and therefore I suspect it's not going to come from
>the Linux porting team.
>
>It could
r effort has been to port the Sun
JDK to Linux. And they've done a wonderful job of it.
What we do need, in the research community, is a more open Java
system. Something we can all hack on, experiment with. It's not going
to come from Sun, and therefore I suspect it's not going to come
Note removal of crossposts. I am not sure whether this is
an appropriate list either, so my apologies.
> worried about Sun defining ISO Java specifications that include
> sucks hacks and com.sun.java.swing. What we really need is a more
> open "open process" from Sun.
What we would need is an
