Re: [DotGNU]Re: Support Java for .GNU

[Jeremy Petzold]

I am certainly no Java expert(can't write in it...yet :)  ) but I thought that 
I herd of a clean room implementation of it already. can anyone verify that?

-Jeremy

On Wed, 18 July 2001, Martin Coxall wrote:

> 
> > > Java is encumbered by Sun's licensing. It would be a *very* bad move to
> > > use it as the core of Arch.
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > May I be so bold to say: we don't need Mono. 
> 
> Fair enough. Design something new. CLEAN ROOM. Java is unclean. Encumbered. 
> Proprietary. It would be immoral to use it and a fundamental betrayal of the 
> principles of the Free Software movement. It would be a tremendous corruption 
> of all that the GNU project stands for to even consider using Java.
> 
> I only suggest Mono because it is the only other alternative we have at 
> present. *Open* standard. Free, unencumbered.
> 
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Regards,

Jeremy
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