From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dc94fe39f71093ec X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Geoff Bull Subject: Re: The revolution will not be standardized Date: 1999/12/14 Message-ID: <38561B09.474238D2@acenet.com.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 560473411 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <82p7hu$l1q$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <82ppc9$1u6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <385252E8.FF140CD2@acenet.com.au> <8333q3$9rh$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@telstra.net X-Trace: nsw.nnrp.telstra.net 945167097 203.35.118.1 (Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:24:57 EST) Organization: Customer of Telstra Big Pond Direct MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:24:57 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > > Since Java is now free, in the monetary sense, we have 1001+ > > amazing standard APIs simply by calling Java's APIs. > > Yes, but is it free in the freedom sense? > No. Sun want to keep *their* freedom, which is why they bailed out of the ECMA standardissation process (and ISO before that). Read the licence and see what it means for you. You can get the source too, but of course there are strict conditions on what you can do with it. Cheers Geoff