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David Gilbert wrote:
> No, and probably by design.  If this is true, Sun's Java will fill the 
> niche market for free-as-in-freedom runtimes, making it very hard for 
> Harmony (and GNU Classpath) to find an audience.  But if all you want is 
> a free-as-in-freedom runtime, then the outcome is still great!

I dunno.  Maybe.

I think that in order to really work for the "free-as-in-stallman" ;) 
community, someone will have to literally fork sun's GPL-ed 
implementation, as I'm guessing GPL advocates will want to be able to 
contribute / augment / maintain the codebase, but not allow Sun to 
re-license their contributions under commercial terms.

This is only a guess.  I can't speak for GPL advocates, nor am I sure 
what Sun will do in the end wrt community and governance.

No matter what, it won't be boring.

geir

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dave Gilbert
> http://www.jfree.org/
> 
> Leo Li wrote:
>> Is it a good news for Harmony?
>>
>> On 11/9/06, Andrew Zhang <zhanghuangzhu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml;?articleId=193600331 
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Best regards,
>>> Andrew Zhang
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> 
>