Re: java2?

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 09:57:57AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 08:23:59PM +0800, Paolo Falcone wrote:
> > There's a port for java2 sdk 1.3 (can't remember if it's blackdown's
> > or what...). Anyway, Sun made Blackdown and other entities who wish
> > to port the java2 sdk to sign NDA's, thus the licensing issue -
> > can't distribute them with the regular CD's. hope that would change
> > in the future (Sun looks a bit promising on this... M$ a distant
> > reality...)
> > 
> > The ported j2sdk1.3 for linux are available for the potato, woody
> > and sid versions of debian gnu/linux.
> 
>     /me shakes head slowly
> 
>     Sun, Sun, Sun... you'd think they'd wisen up by now. Especially
> with C# and .NET looming on the horizon. 

Yeah. There's been an attempt to clarify the licence enough to get it
into non-free, but the ftpmasters weren't convinced that it was good
enough (even non-free has some requirements - the licence looked like it
required Debian to indemnify Sun against any damages caused by our
package, IIRC).

>     I don't really like Java all that much. Too slow. Moore's law be
> damned. 

Amen, brother.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]