Justin Conover writes: > On 10/11/05, Brion Vibber <brion@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Beagle uses DotLucene too, but there's a lot more code around it, > > including all the indexing, file monitoring, file format readers, user > > interface, desktop integration... I'm sure it could be ported to Java, > > but it seems like it would be a lot of wasted effort just because some > > folks at Red Hat don't want to ship free software from Novell. ;) > > As far as wasted effort, how many of the mono apps are duplicates of > software that is already out there? Can we please stop this thread now? I'm staring to get a bad feeling about where this might lead. I mean, I like a nice flame war as much as the next man, but, but ... :-) Seriously, let's concentrate on Java development in Fedora. Andrew.