On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:21:31AM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote:
> > Java runs on Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris and has been full, free
> > and working for years.
> 
> You're talking free as in beer. Simon was talking free as in freedom.

Correct.  If I hadn’t managed to get JOSM working on a free (as in
freedom) implementation of Java, I probably wouldn’t have been
contributing to OSM this year.  Next up, Potlatch running in Gnash
(getting closer all of the time).

Simon
-- 
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
simple system that works.—John Gall

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