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

[Martin Coxall]

> 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?

You can have a clean(ish)-room implementation of a JVM (Kaffe) and Libraries 
(GNU Classpath), but alas the bytecode specification, API specification and 
the language specification are all "intellectual property" of Sun 
Microsystems and encumbered by a bad licenses and foolish resistance to open 
standardisation. Thus, Java would be an immoral and dangerous choice as the 
base of dotGNU-arch.

BTW, I say this coming from the point of view of an experienced Java 
developer, who know only too well the shortcomings of Java and Sun, and is 
terrified that dotGNU plans to incorporate its flaws and legal baggage into 
dotGNU. Please don't let that happen. Start with something open (Mono) or 
Start Again From Scratch.


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Martin
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