Hello, Allow me to highlight the blog story by Tom Tromey - of GNU Compiler for Java (gcj) fame - that points out some questions to ask if you attend the Java Open Source Debate at Sun's JavaOne conference. True to style Sun has - of course - not invited any actual Free Java hacker to the "debate".
Tom writes: Sun invariably says that they can't think of what problems open source Java would solve that aren't already solved. Of course that's ridiculous. It is pretty hard for Linux vendors to ship a working JRE on their platform if they make any sort of changes at all -- the Java vendors are just too slow. And Debian can't ship a complete Java at all, so lots of Java software ends up in unfree. On top of this, non-free core software is something to be avoided in the community. This overly-controlled approach on Sun's part is losing the Linux desktop to .NET. I'm curious to hear what Sun has to say about this. Do they notice this? Do they care? Do they think there is some other strategy to change this? Full story @ http://www.peakpeak.com/~tromey/blog/2004/06/25/#free-java5 - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Viva! Free Java Now Campaign | http://viva.sourceforge.net The Java Republic | http://viva.sourceforge.net/republic ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]