Re: [ossig] Java in OSS

[Khairil Yusof <khairil@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 10:35, Nicholas Adrian Suppiah wrote:

> Just browsing along and something sparked me to ask this. There are
> many development environment for open source software (OSS). Is there
> any negative or positive note on Java being used for OSS? I'd
> appreciate your 5cents and URLs.

Actually OSS and Java is quite big see:
http://jakarta.apache.org (BSD like license)
http://www.netbeans.org (IDE from Sun)
http://www.eclipse.org (IDE from IBM)

The main issue with OSS advocates licensing of Java, which poses a lot
of questions as to how free it will be in future under the control of
Sun. This has been debated everywhere the past few months, and a quick
google should give some hits.

There is effort by RH also to get gcj to compile to native code Java
programs. http://sources.redhat.com/rhug/index.html.

Java is not my cup of tea, but there is a mature OSS development
community behind it as well as large corporate backing.

Having said all that, consider python :)

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