Hello Havoc, a very interesting article! I write this mail without having asked the others who work on GNU Classpath, but I think I can speak for everyone when I say that we all are glad about such thoughtful writings!
Just a minor comment: There actually exist quite a variety of open-source JVMs, many more than were mentioned in your text. For an overview (basically a few "bullet points" for each VM), see e.g. the Classpath talk at last FOSDEM: http://www.dandelis.ch/people/brawer/articles/classpathFeb2004/ (The VM overview starts at page 24. Before, the talk tries to explain why we think that Java is a reasonable choice for free software, and tells about the current state of implementation). Personally, I'm not sure whether having so many VMs is good. But as you noted in your text, it doesn't really matter that much, because most development gets shared via GNU Classpath. Best regards, -- Sascha Sascha Brawer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dandelis.ch/people/brawer/ _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
