Andrew Roberts offers a
recap of the Sun Java / Apache Harmony situation
including these quotes of Dalibor Topic:
"Apache Software Foundation, an organisation that's been quite successful at writing, maintaining and encouraging donations of Free Software written in the Java programming language eventually started thinking that a full J2SE implementation might be a good thing to have under Apache's umbrella as well, beside a huge chunk of the stack above it."
"These days, there is an almost full Free Software stack, going from the Linux kernel, to the supporting GNU libraries from one side, and going from certified, compatible enterprise software development and deployment environments and their supporting libraries from the other side, like JBoss or JOnAS. The only remaining non-free card in that software stack is a fully compatible Free Software runtime for programs and libraries written in the Java programming language."
10.06.2005, 07:53