On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:04:51AM -0800, Matt Dorre wrote: > > --- Timm Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a hard time seeing how something like > > > the freenet project can say with a straight face > > that > > > it's done in java so that it's cross platform. > > > Read Ian's orginal paper on the Freenet web site. > > Java was mostly used > > because it makes development easier, not because of > > being cross platform. > > After all, this is a Free Software project. In Free > > Software, there is no > > real gain in having the binaries being cross > > platform, since the source can > > always be recompiled for a new platform. > > > > Well heck, why not write it in visual basic? I hear > that's really easy. Considering that all but one of > the JVMs are covered by proprietary licenses anyway.
This'd be even WORSE than the current arrangement, where it is written
in Java! Now you've tied it to a PURELY proprietary language, on a
single platform, with no hope of just creating a common crossplatform
file and network interface over the native OS interface (which is what
you'd do in C)!
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Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance,
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