Any redhat people around?

Tue Jun 24 04:39:00 GMT 2003

> Since I know that there are some RedHat people on this list I wondered
> if some of them knew some more about the following:
[...]
>> Red Hat Inc is in discussions with Sun Microsystems Inc about
> launching an open source version of Sun's Java environment,
> according to Red Hat chairman and CEO Matthew Szulik.
>> [...]
>> Szulik said that Red Hat has been working for five years on open
> source versions of Java technologies such as Just In Time
> compilers and Java Virtual Machines in a clean room environment,
> and has requested the sponsorship of Sun to go ahead with the
> full-scale project.
>> [...]
>> Szulik said that discussions between Red Hat and Sun had reached
> a "very serious stage", but he would not estimate a timeline for
> the delivery of an open source version of Java.
>> [...]
>> But then again we have heard this since 1996. (Anybody remember JOLT?)

It's instructive to read James Gosling's views on Open
Source Java:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/13/HNgosling_1.html?development
And Per's speculation that this is GCJ that this article
is talking about:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=68621&cid=6277818
Ranjit.
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