On 11/29/2010 5:48 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
On 29 November 2010 08:22, Mark Wielaard<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 20:06 -0800, Erik Trimble wrote:
Oh, and a corporate plug here: if you buy an Oracle support contract
for the JDK, you get access to all builds and the special "secret sauce"
source code, including for all Updates.
So, open that wallet, and dump out the contents...
Do you mean that by getting a support contract for the JDK you will then
get access to this source code under free terms? So it will then be
possible to add this source code to OpenJDK and/or redistribute it under
the GPL? That would be awesome! Then those who contribute to the OpenJDK
community source code can share as equals. If so, then maybe we should
see if we can raise some money to get access to such a support contract
to liberate the last remaining binary plugs.
I don't think so. It sounds more like an insidious attempt to get
more people working on (and tainted by) the proprietary code base and
hardly appropriate for the OpenJDK mailing lists.
Thanks,
Mark
OK, first off, there's no attempt by me here to coerce anyone into doing
anything they don't want to. I'm not interested in "recruiting" or
anything else; I was offering an option. The last part of my post should
have clued everyone in to the not-super-serious tone of the message;
i.e. a support contract isn't cheap, by any means.
The reason I even added this post was that the OP (Denis) had asked
about continued access to Windows binaries builds after JDK 7. Meaning,
he was interested in getting continued binary builds of the development
work. An Oracle Support Contract is one way to continue to get access to
JDK 7 Windows binary builds after JDK 7 goes GA.
Of course, others who build a binary OpenJDK7-based product should also
speak up here, because I certainly can't speak to what other companies
than Oracle offer that might be of help to Denis.
I realize this is a technical list, so I'm not going to pursue this further.
--
Erik Trimble
Java System Support
Mailstop: usca22-123
Phone: x17195
Santa Clara, CA
