2nd quarter of 2007 and no GPL code of Java from Sun.

Mohan Embar gnustuff@thisiscool.com
Fri Apr 6 19:26:00 GMT 2007


Hi David,
>We freeloaders tend to dread the prospect that we will have to pay for 
>what we have become accustomed to receiving gratis. It should be 
>remembered that there is no inalienable right to free Red Hat services.

Why not? Didn't they already set a precedent with Fedora? :)
>There are several companies that make a business of selling proprietary 
>java runtime environments for embedded devices. I wonder if it would be 
>possible to survive by providing support for gcj/libgcj...

That handles your embedded devices scenario, not my Win32 scenario.
I know it's too premature to speculate on the future and wasn't really
expecting a real answer, just thinking out loud.
-- Mohan
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