JSR 166 (Concurrency utilities)

Fri Aug 16 11:52:00 GMT 2002

Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> I understand the restiktive license of the jdk-classes.
> Otherwise java would brake up into hundered of incompatible standards, 
> andd that wouldnt be good for java.
> It would die like commercial Unix died, simply because theres no standard,

This is not the place to discuss Sun's license. I will just note
that the existence of hundreds of Free Software projects that have *not*
forked (e.g. gcc, gcj, apache, openoffice, mozilla, ...) seems to
disprove your contention (and Sun's fears).
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