Hi Patrick.
On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 13:11 +0000, theUser BL wrote:
Have a look at
http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=18036&tstart=0
there I have written a qustion at Mark and other developers.
IMO, it is not necessary and feasible to have The One OSS/F Java
implementation. That's not how the Free Software model has worked in the
past and I see no reason why it would in the future and for Java. Just
look at the kernels, desktops, editors, etc etc, where there's always
the question 'why not pull forces together and work on The One
implementation'. Easy answer, there's lots of different people and
groups involved in free software development with different goals and
requirements, different development models, different ideals etc etc.
And really, I think the world would not be any better with only one
implementation of them all. AFAICS, it's apparent the having more than
one implementation is better in most cases.
What I'd find best for Java is something like we have in the BSD world.
Friendly competing communities, with code flowing freely in all
directions. Something similar would be healthy for Java too, having 3
implementations in friendly competetion with code flowing between them
as it fits. Of course, the basic requirements for this is that all 3
licenses allow such a scenario. It would be sad if there's only 1 or 2
of the implementations 'inside' and the other(s) 'outside' of the Java
community. I'd really like to see Sun, Harmony and Classpath developing
and improving Java, all in their own ways and using their own methods.
This could allow one party to focus on their stuff and include other
pieces from other parties.
Of course, when GNU, Sun and Apache can get together to work on one
implementation, that would be great, but very very unlikely. Just as
unlikely as a Gnome-KDE merger, or a Linux/*BSD/Hurd merger, etc.
Cheers, Roman
