Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
Maybe - or just declaring a patent peace or patent commons. I think
that there's nothing wrong with proprietary software, so if they want
to keep competing using it, great.
I don't see a point in proprietary JVMs, and class libraries for major
operating systems, in today's situation.
The only purpose I could see them used for is as a tool for attacks on
the integrity of the platform through locking in users into proprietary
extensions.
I don't think the market would be able to sort out a distributor with a
strong channel, like IBM, that went that route, as our experience in
Apache Harmony
with code using unspecified sun.* classes shows.
'Never again' should be the motto for IBM & BEA, imho. They should let
deeds follow the open letters, and open up their
proprietary implementations.
cheers,
dalibor topic
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