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Re: JSR 166 (Concurrency utilities)
- From: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- To: Clemens Eisserer <Linuxhippy at web dot de>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:00:09 -0700
- Subject: Re: JSR 166 (Concurrency utilities)
- References: <1029516715.2097.73.camel@dhcppc2> <3D5D6334.8050806@web.de>
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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--Per Bothner
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