On Tuesday 02 March 2004 16:23, Patrik Reali wrote:
Although I'm pretty sure that everybody already read the articles, here's the sequel of the free java story from slashdot:
26 Feb: IBM Offers to Help Sun Open Up Java: <http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/26/1532254&mode=thread>
27 Feb: Sun Agrees to Talk to IBM over Open Sourcing Java: <http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/27/1610245&mode=thread
This is bizarre. IBM already has an open source version of Java (JikesVM), but perhaps Rod Smith is not aware of that.
The question is, if IBM is allowed to open source their Java implementation. According to some articles they are not allowed to do this. Does anyone know why? Do they have Sun code in their JRE? Even if this is the case, they could still hand their existing code over to classpath, if they want.
Apparently Sun isn't taking IBM's suggestions very seriously yet:
http://www.linuxworld.com/story/43913.htm http://www.newsforge.com/programming/04/02/28/0022246.shtml
You never know what Sun does next. Maybe an open letter to IBM could help classpath.(?) Open letters are quite common these days.
Jens
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