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 _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
