On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 11:34:14PM -0500, Travis Bemann wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 06:52:32PM -0500, Tavin Cole wrote:
> > OTOH, we could take the opportunity to abandon these buggy 1.1 JVMs
> > altogether and start using 1.2+ features if they are supported by the
> > leading free JVMs (only Kaffe atm).
> 
> The thing is that there is only one working free software JVM, and
> that is Kaffe, and Kaffe only (of course) supports Java 1.1  Thus, if
> we abandon pure Java 1.1 support, we are practically tying ourselves
> to proprietary software.  While "open source" supporters may not have
> much of a problem with this, this does not promote real software
> freedom in any respect whatsoever - in this respect, abandoning Java
> 1.1 is purely harmful.

Speaking of goldfish memory, Kaffe does support some 1.2 features.
-tc


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