Stallman lamenting that GCJ and ClassPath are still (read: eternally) catching up ...

[Erik Poupaert]

The "Java Trap" is otherwise an interesting read:

http://programming.newsforge.com/programming/04/04/07/2021242.shtml?tid=105&tid=54

He's lamenting about "GCJ and ClassPath still catching up".

GCJ eternally catching up is otherwise a self-inflicted condition. I mean, we all
know very well that it never pays to play copycat. There's no way to be *and*
compatible with Sun *and* to let things drift there where the users want to take them
-- and that's eventually the only strategy that guarantees success.

Let's recap the GCJ successes from 1998 till this very day? None. What will be the
GCJ successes in 2007? None again. It doesn't take a degree in advanced econometrics
to see this coming.

It all just sounds as if there were no niches -- at all -- in which GCJ could be
successful and start building strength. Of course there are.