Tim O'Neil wrote:
> Not really. You either use tools and standards that other people
> before have developed, and agree to their terms and give them
> due credit where appropriate, or re-invent the wheel all over
> again. That's not sad at all, that's fair trade. How would you like
> it if a "customer" (maybe I'm alone in this but I've never worked for
> a company that paid Sun a dime for the JDK itself) came up to you
> and said "I want to redistribute your product and not only that I
> want you to re-engineer it so that it works to MY specifications, and
> if you bill me I'm going to tell you to get lost."
Tim,
I work for a US Defense contractor and we do this sort of "here's what we want
your product to do" thing all the time. Of course we pay through the nose for
it too. One of the way's we're trying to cut costs is to use-it-like it is, or
better known as Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS). We are trying to fit our
product around different COTS products. We too must live with SUN's rightful
claim to rights for their product. We will be distributing tools.jar with our
product. I agree 100% SUN has the right to control how their product is
distributed, even that Bill Gates fella does too. I just try to stay away from
his stuff.
-joe-
