Mathieu Baudier wrote:
>
> I do believe that with Java now GPL, Linux+Java can be a great platform.
> But there are years of parallel development paths and, if I can put it
> that way, mutual distrust, that need to be overcome.
> So it is still a bit painful (but much much better than a few years ago!).
>
> I have the feeling that Red Hat is supporting Java on the long term,
> e.g. with their ownership of JBoss, and their contributions to
> OpenJdk/IcedTea (for example the very interesting work of Gary Benson
> on alternative architectures such as PPC, see [2]).
Given that it could have been trivial to include Sun Java ages ago, or at least
not intentionally break the jpackage installation methods, I think Red Hat has
done more damage to java than any other company and don't see that turning
around even if they try at this late date.
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Les Mikesell
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