On Tuesday 22 August 2006 23:37 Dalibor Topic wrote: > 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.
I am not sure this is the case for big corporation's own Java implemetations. It is likely Sun cares about its own priorities and in case of IBM for example it doesn't care how well Java runs on Power. It could be a reason enough to write a proprietary Java VM. And since all of corporations license classlib from Sun they all have to implement sun.* classes to an extent to make classlib functional. > 'Never again' should be the motto for IBM & BEA, imho. They should let > deeds follow the open letters, and open up their > proprietary implementations. No one knows which license agreements they've signed to get classlib. It could be impossible to them to open the implementation too tightly tied with Sun's classlib. -- Gregory Shimansky, Intel Middleware Products Division --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
