Nice idea but for industry programmers this would only work
if there was an adequate alternative available. And if such
were available, there would not be a need for the petition!
The kaffe/gcj/classpath stuff is way behind sun java, and so is not
an alternative. (Interesting question: is it falling further
behind or is it catching up?)
Python is not even in the same category - it's a nice clean scripting language,
but it's bytecode interpreted - java has near C++ performance;
this is a factor of 10-50x faster.
Unlike many, I give sun credit for producing a pretty good language
(the best *practical* choice out there at the moment, albeit
some of the libraries are better than others), and for being
slightly open with it: the source *is* available, you *can* change,
they are supporting linux, they are working with apple, they
have incorporated suggestions from ibm, netscape, blackdown, etc.
I hear they could be better at all of these things, but unlike many
people I see Sun's partial efforts as being way better than
microsoft and other companies - and I think we should reward
them for this rather than hinting that they're te devil.
For the sun=microsoft crowd, when do you think Microsoft will
- release source for VB or VC++
- then take the linux port of VB under it's wings and officially keep
it in-sync with the Win version
- incorporate libraries, design fixes and bugfixes from apple, ibm, and
you
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