On Oct 22, 10:32 am, Chris Adamson <invalidn...@gmail.com> wrote: > To me, one line that stood out in Gosling's blog was this one: > > "Sun also provided the VM for Linux because there was no one else to > do it."
...under the conditions of that pre-OpenJDK era - closed code, had to pay a license etc. Like HP, IBM and others did. RedHat for example could have done that job. The Blackdown team, as you mention below, sort of did it, with a special arrangement to have access to Sun's source code and TCK, but they obviously didn't have enough resources to do a top-notch port. A+ Osvaldo > There was a Blackdown port of Java, but I believe it was pretty > troubled. Porting all of Java, including AWT and javax.sound and all > that, is *hard*. Again, I think you see Sun stepping in with their > own JDK primarily as a means of attracting developers and legitimizing > the Java platform. They may not have wanted to, but it seems they had > to. > > --Chris > > On Oct 22, 8:22 am, opinali <opin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Gosling's > > take:http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/steve_jobs_comments_on_apple > > > On Oct 22, 8:08 am, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> > > wrote: > > > > On 10/22/10 12:01 , opinali wrote:> Why did Apple insist on having > > > control of the Mac JVM years ago, when > > > > Sun wanted do do that? > > > > As Chris said, unfortunately in this case Sun is to blame for the poor > > > engineering and integration, at the time. > > > > -- > > > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > > > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > > > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > > > fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
