On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 06:00:07PM +0100, Toad wrote:
> We cannot make a non-sun-dependant Freenet.

...at this moment in time, but Kaffe's java.nio stuff is progressing 
rapidly.

> You cannot make a package
> of Sun Java, maybe not even an installer package. We apparently care
> more about the windows leechers who probably won't donate to the project
> than the people who actually care about Freenet who probably run Linux
> or BSD, for security reasons as much as anything else.

Come on - that is pure bigotry, on what evidence do you think that
Windows users don't donate to the project?  I don't know for sure, but I
suspect that most of the money that pays your wages comes from Windows
users.

> We therefore
> cannot contribute project time to making Freenet work on GCJ. I suggest
> you go put your head in a bucket of sand. It will go away eventually!

We can and do contribute project time to trying to make Freenet work on 
GCJ and Kaffe, and GCJ and Kaffe users are more than welcome to 
contribute their own time too - but there has to be a limit, we are in 
the free communication business first, and the free software business 
second - lets keep our priorities straight.  

Free software is a good cause, but so is preventing famine in Africa,
yet if we sent all of our donations to help feed starving Africans, I
suspect those that donated the money might be a-little pissed off, and
rightly so.

Ian.

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Ian Clarke                                                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Founder, Locutus                                        http://locut.us/
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