Nobody's mentioned Jikes yet. It's an open source (CPL) java compiler from IBM. It's written in C and is significantly faster than javac which runs in the vm.
If you want your java code to run on the vm, jikes may be a good idea. If you want native java code, then there's also gcj .
Wifi and cordless phones actually run on an unregulated part of the spectrum. No FCC to keep you from using it. No FCC to stop other people from mucking it up.
IANAL, but once the release the code under a free license, I wouldn't think they could "unlicense" it. Dual licensing setups seem to be fairly common (MySQL, QT). Seems the only problem is what you run into with the BSD license of a proprietary fork running over the free version. You'll still always have the free version though.
I'd like to thank Miguel for his contributions. I'm a gnome user, and it is quite nice.
What I don't get though, is why he seems absolutely fascinated with the boys in redmond. He reimplements Outlook, and now he's reimplimenting their reimplimentation of Java. Why not get behind an OSS implementation of the original ala kaffe or gcj, or push the OSS own Parrot?
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Nobody's mentioned Jikes yet. It's an open source (CPL) java compiler from IBM. It's written in C and is significantly faster than javac which runs in the vm.
If you want your java code to run on the vm, jikes may be a good idea. If you want native java code, then there's also gcj .
Anybody else read that as the "Shroud of Turing"?
Or just build it yourself. http://www.nvu.com/Building_From_Source.html
Wifi and cordless phones actually run on an unregulated part of the spectrum. No FCC to keep you from using it. No FCC to stop other people from mucking it up.
That's why they wanted to call it Phoenix....
IANAL, but once the release the code under a free license, I wouldn't think they could "unlicense" it. Dual licensing setups seem to be fairly common (MySQL, QT). Seems the only problem is what you run into with the BSD license of a proprietary fork running over the free version. You'll still always have the free version though.
I'd like to thank Miguel for his contributions. I'm a gnome user, and it is quite nice. What I don't get though, is why he seems absolutely fascinated with the boys in redmond. He reimplements Outlook, and now he's reimplimenting their reimplimentation of Java. Why not get behind an OSS implementation of the original ala kaffe or gcj, or push the OSS own Parrot?