On Mar 25, 2004, at 6:18 AM, David N. Welton wrote:
Well, according to this, the 'discussion' is over:
http://news.osdir.com/article491.html
For this year, I think.
I think the best thing that ASF community members can do for now, until the next news flareup, is in blogs, conversations etc, is point out how much the ASF does wrt 'open source java' - how this isn't a new idea and we're working hard to make it happen.
I'm not a user or participant in the Java community, so my perceptions and impressions are those of an outsider.
What does the ASF do to promote "open source java", where "open source java" is defined as the basic infrastructure necessary to run java code on computers (jvm and libraries)?
Right now we are doing nothing specifically to that end. That's starting at the bottom of the stack, and we work from the other direction.
Costin had some good suggestions for working deeper - like ensuring code here works on the OSS implementations (which is really just a form of compatibility testing...)
The only thing we could do for OSS is to actually do an implementation of a JVM for some platform and get it certified, which is possible.
I vote we choose the .NET CLR as the first platform ;)
geir
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