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Re: [DotGNU]Re: Support Java for .GNU
From: |
Martin Coxall |
Subject: |
Re: [DotGNU]Re: Support Java for .GNU |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Jul 2001 14:00:17 +0100 |
> I am certainly no Java expert(can't write in it...yet :) ) but I thought
> that I herd of a clean room implementation of it already. can anyone verify
> that?
You can have a clean(ish)-room implementation of a JVM (Kaffe) and Libraries
(GNU Classpath), but alas the bytecode specification, API specification and
the language specification are all "intellectual property" of Sun
Microsystems and encumbered by a bad licenses and foolish resistance to open
standardisation. Thus, Java would be an immoral and dangerous choice as the
base of dotGNU-arch.
BTW, I say this coming from the point of view of an experienced Java
developer, who know only too well the shortcomings of Java and Sun, and is
terrified that dotGNU plans to incorporate its flaws and legal baggage into
dotGNU. Please don't let that happen. Start with something open (Mono) or
Start Again From Scratch.
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Martin
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- Re: [DotGNU]Re: Support Java for .GNU, (continued)
Re: [DotGNU]Re: Support Java for .GNU, Norbert Bollow, 2001/07/18
Re: [DotGNU]Re: Support Java for .GNU, Jeremy Petzold, 2001/07/16
Re: [DotGNU]Re: Support Java for .GNU, Jeremy Petzold, 2001/07/18
- Re: [DotGNU]Re: Support Java for .GNU,
Martin Coxall <=
- Re: [DotGNU]Re: Support Java for .GNU, Kent Nguyen, 2001/07/18
- Re: [DotGNU]Re: Support Java for .GNU, Martin Coxall, 2001/07/18
- Re: [DotGNU]Re: Support Java for .GNU, Jeremy Petzold, 2001/07/18
- Re: [DotGNU]Re: Support Java for .GNU, Martin Coxall, 2001/07/18
- Re: [DotGNU]Re: Support Java for .GNU, Norbert Bollow, 2001/07/18
- Re: [DotGNU]Re: Support Java for .GNU, Martin Coxall, 2001/07/18
- [DotGNU]Choice of bytecode spec (was: Support Java for .GNU), Norbert Bollow, 2001/07/18
- Re: [DotGNU]Choice of bytecode spec (was: Support Java for .GNU), David Sugar, 2001/07/18
- Re: [DotGNU]Choice of bytecode spec (was: Support Java for .GNU), Norbert Bollow, 2001/07/18
- Re: [DotGNU]Choice of bytecode spec (was: Support Java for .GNU), Adam Theo, 2001/07/18