Not an option for many platforms

Posted May 15, 2005 14:28 UTC (Sun) by hazelsct (guest, #3659)
In reply to: This all just support's Sun's key premise: by skybrian
Parent article: A proposal for a free Java implementation

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.)