OpenJDK BSD Port project: why FreeBSD Java Fondation is not metioned?

[Marcin Cieslak]

Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Mark.
> You wrote 6 сентября 2008 г., 12:36:39:
> 
>> I suspect that some FreeBSD users would prefer a "java" with a license
>> that is closer to the BSD license.  Perhaps, they'll use Apache Harmony?
>> (It might actually be working on FreeBSD in the same sort of time
>> frame.)
>   But many users would prefer Java(TM), because many commercial
> products will lost support if Java palatform is not Java(TM)...
> 

This will last only that long as long the bugs will be fixed fast and 
new features implemented will be timely and in due manner. There are two 
examples from the past:

1) OpenSSH vs. SSH.com

Almost everybody switched to an alternative, because it got better, and 
it was free.

2) OpenOffice.org vs. go-oo.org

In this case SCA and the Sun process seems to be obstacle in faster 
development. Interesting discussion went there:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.ximian.openoffice/2618

I don't know which way the JDK will go, however.

--Marcin


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 273 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java/attachments/20080906/36c1ba38/signature.pgp