Kevin Kofler wrote:
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell <at> gmail.com> writes:
And you'll just ignore the entire prior history of fedora?
You mean the prior history of _Java_!
If you mean the reason it - and much of the other currently open source
software exists at all, you shouldn't ignore that either. As much as I
like open source and freely available code, I recognize that much would
never have existed if it were not for original proprietary work - and
that we are all better off as a result of everyone's participation with
the proprietary version.
Fedora merely shipped the only available option which was Free Software. Blame
Sun Microsystems for not having made their implementation Free Software right
from the start.
I blame fedora for not maintaining a relationship with japackage.org
until their users no longer need what they provide. In fact, I don't
see any reason any java code needs to be specialized for a distribution
or included in its own repository. Why not just make fedora work with
an external repo for java that works across distributions/versions and
avoid the issue entirely instead of shipping something that isn't quite
java? Even when a real java can be included, what is the point of
having specialized distro/version packages of the apps that don't need
specialization?
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