Hi, On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 23:36, David Holmes wrote: > Sun wasn't "full of praise". OVM was mentioned by Greg Bollella as an > example of an independent implementation of the RTSJ and how academia was > looking at issues within the RTSJ. Nothing more, nothing less.
I wasn't there, but I read about this keynote of Gosling in a couple of places and OVM and the impact it has on research in real time issue was always mentioned. Lets just say at least I am full of praise :) Maybe the negative feeling I got from the "Big Debate" was also amplified by not being there. I guess I always get a bit annoyed when I hear Gosling ("The Father of the GPL" *) being negative on Free Software and trying to pass off Sun distributing a proprietary implementation of java to one distributed under the GPL "just with a different catch". Instead of promoting sharing and freedom it inhibits sharing and the freedom of users. That is indeed a different catch... But maybe all this talk about compatibility will at least lead to the Kaffe team finally getting access to the TCK on reasonable terms. And after the release (waiting for some feedback from the Jikes RVM hackers) we should try to explain the JCP pitfalls again now that there is an explicit invitation of "joining". I sometimes just need to be convinced that Sun is sincere in these dialogs. Cheers, Mark *) http://www.free-soft.org/gpl_history/
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