TRUST ME when i say this. Microsoft does not need Sun's piece of (I need to watch my language) code for ANYTHING okay. I was a Java Architect at the NY Java Center of Sun Microsystem and after 3 months working with those 'all conceptual no implementation' idiots I handed in my walking papers and moved on to Microsoft technologies. This move is too little, too late. If those guys really want to help themselves, throw away that useless java VM and run java on either .NET framework or Mono.Xaero_Vincent wrote: RoyalSchrubber wrote: Well, I don't like this news... I am currently learning java and I've planned to use it as servlet pages, but if this happens I'll probably just forget Java (and use some shitty interpreted language instead). I hate GPL; Java should be licensed under BSD or MIT license. It's so egoistic. In my opinion GPL isn't open source - it's just some greedy frustrated anti-ms viral license whose code I can't modify and maybe make some money. (If I released freeware it would be BSD - and I would be happy (and proud) if someone managed to get some money out of it). If Java were under a non-copyleft license like BSD, Microsoft could take Java's code and integrate it into their own platform (.NET, etc.). Yet Java couldn't take any of the .NET code because it isn't open-source under the GPL or a compatable license.The GPL ensures that a typical FOSS developer's work stays in the community and not rap3d by corporate entities, who wouldn't give anything back in return.Regards,Vincent
How about working out a deal with Adobe to use java instead of Actonscript. That would be something interesting and actually usefull to the world.
