Subject: Re: Sun / Imprise Announcement: A Blackdown Porter's ViewPoint
From: Jules Bean (jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Dec 07 1999 - 16:34:17 MST
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Kevin_Hendricks wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I thought you might like to know that Sun is now officially supporting x86 Linux
> and didn't bother to inform their porting partners after using their efforts.
> There is no planned support for Sparc, PowerPC, arm, alpha, etc.
>
> Needless to say, the Blackdown porting effort is in serious jeopardy.
>
> My efforts for Java on Linux PowerPC will cease unless Sun makes a "*public*"
> change asap.
>
> If you use the JDK and want support to continue (at all for powerpc based
> machines) you might want to (politely) express your displeasure with Sun.
Another option out there for people who find java is a useful tool, is to
switch to supporting and working on the various Free versions of Java. In
particular, kaffe, japhar, classpath and gcj.
We're not plants, we don't need sun :-)
Jules
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