I was under the impression that Sun said from the get go that some pieces might have to be
reimplemented since they didn't own the rights to them and weren't sure they could obtain
them.
Do you have a reference to Sun claiming this would happen faster than it already has? In my
world, the creation of IcedTea is evidence of how well the community can help out and pick up
the slack during a major code roll out like this.
Posted Jun 26, 2008 12:35 UTC (Thu) by mjw (subscriber, #16740)
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In my world, the creation of IcedTea is evidence of how well the community can help out and pick up the slack during a major code roll out like this.
Also you could see it as the example that the java liberation is basically done now (Indeed through the help of the free software community at large): Java is finally Free and Open