This all just support's Sun's key premise: [LWN.net]

This all just support's Sun's key premise:

Posted May 11, 2005 7:38 UTC (Wed) by skybrian (subscriber, #365)
In reply to: This all just support's Sun's key premise: by b7j0c
Parent article: A proposal for a free Java implementation

A basic Java development environment is actually pretty simple. Download the Sun JDK and run
either Eclipse or buy IntelliJ.

No, it's not open source, but that's what most Java developers do. While gcj, Kaffe, and so on will
hopefully be useful someday, they're not really ready for prime time and aren't used much yet
except for reasons of ideology.

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Not an option for many platforms

Posted May 15, 2005 14:28 UTC (Sun) by hazelsct (guest, #3659) [Link]

This only works on Sun-blessed platforms. And given recent experience with other closed systems related to the kernel, I'm amazed anyone would consider this an option. (No, Sun probably won't pull everyone's license to use the free-beer JVM, but they will likely make it run faster on their own platforms than others', and have little to no incentive to make it run on, say, Debian Alpha.)