On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 07:06, Glenn Holmer wrote:
> Gerald Bauer wrote:
> > Tom writes:
> >
> > Sun invariably says that they can't think of what
> > problems open source Java would solve that aren't
> > already solved. Of course that's ridiculous.
>
> Why?
>
> > It is
> > pretty hard for Linu
Gerald Bauer wrote:
Hello,
Allow me to highlight the blog story by Tom Tromey -
Here's another good take on the issue:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/5135
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Glenn Holmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Programmer/Analyst
Charles Forsythe wrote:
Quoting Diego Pons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Think about it, perhaps we would have already JVM's on silicon on the
cheap instead of needing these gigaherz machines to run java properly.
JVMs on silicon? Like, maybe, the Ajile AJ-100?
I'd be interested in comments on the ARM-926
Quoting Diego Pons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Think about it, perhaps we would have already JVM's on silicon on the
> cheap instead of needing these gigaherz machines to run java properly.
JVMs on silicon? Like, maybe, the Ajile AJ-100?
http://www.ajile.com/downloads/aj100.pdf
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Breaking t
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:20:11 -0500
Glenn Holmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think anybody consciously wants to break compatibility,
> but I think it would simply be too tempting to add Just One Cool
> Feature(tm). That's the way Open Source works: when a programmer
> feels an itch, he co
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:20:11 -0500
Glenn Holmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think anybody consciously wants to break compatibility,
> but I think it would simply be too tempting to add Just One Cool
> Feature(tm). That's the way Open Source works: when a programmer
> feels an itch, he co
Glenn Holmer wrote:
I don't think anybody consciously wants to break compatibility,
but I think it would simply be too tempting to add Just One Cool
Feature(tm). That's the way Open Source works: when a programmer
feels an itch, he codes. And that's OK for the kernel, or maybe
XFree86, and for ap
Gerald Bauer wrote:
unfree.
On top of this, non-free core software is something
to be avoided in the community. This overly-controlled
approach on Sun's part is losing the Linux desktop to
.NET.
.NET is freerer than java?
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To
Glenn Holmer wrote:
Gerald Bauer wrote:
Tom writes:
Sun invariably says that they can't think of what
problems open source Java would solve that aren't
already solved. Of course that's ridiculous.
Why?
It is
pretty hard for Linux vendors to ship a working JRE on
their platform if they make any
Glenn Holmer wrote:
Gerald Bauer wrote:
Tom writes:
Sun invariably says that they can't think of what
problems open source Java would solve that aren't
already solved. Of course that's ridiculous.
Why?
It is
pretty hard for Linux vendors to ship a working JRE on
their platform if they make any
Hello,
Allow me to highlight the blog story by Tom Tromey -
of GNU Compiler for Java (gcj) fame - that points out
some questions to ask if you attend the Java Open
Source Debate at Sun's JavaOne conference. True to
style Sun has - of course - not invited any actual
Free Java hacker to the "debat
Hello,
Allow me to highlight the blog story by Tom Tromey -
of GNU Compiler for Java (gcj) fame - that points out
some questions to ask if you attend the Java Open
Source Debate at Sun's JavaOne conference. True to
style Sun has - of course - not invited any actual
Free Java hacker to the "debat
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