[TriLUG] This is not good

[Christopher L Merrill]

Michael Kimsal wrote:
> Interestingly, though, Sun never 'went after' open source efforts (to my
> knowledge) like gcj.  The 'open source' java packages get bundled on linux
> distros to the point where you can type "java" on the command line and get
> something that sort of looks like Java, but doesn't run most packages.
> Perhaps things are a bit better these days, but I always thought that 'out
> of the box' experience did as much harm to the name 'Java' as anything MS
> ever did.

I'm sure they feared the fallout from suing an open-source project.  Can you
imagine the uproar?

And you're right - projects like gcj really hurt Java's reputation.  Sun
should have worked to get Java onto the major distros in a more friendly
fashion.  Heck, just providing the ability to install via yum, apt, etc.
from Sun repositories would have gone a long way.




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