Sun / Imprise Announcement: A Blackdown Porter's ViewPoint

[Jules Bean]

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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