From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Tue Feb 09 1999 - 23:38:30 EST
On Feb 10, 1999, Tim Wilkinson <tim@transvirtual.com> wrote:
> - my Custom customers don't want to screw around with untested and
> legally illiterate licenses
If you were willing to test and support (the parts of) Classpath (that
we would adopt), that would not be a problem at all. But I understand
your willingness not to do it.
> Are you really saying that the solution to bugs in our libraries is to
> throw them away and use someone elses - hey! if we have a bug in the VM
> we should chuck that out too and use Japhar - what do you say !! :-)
A very good analogy. But my point is not about throwing someone's
work away, actually, it's about sharing efforts, picking up what's
best in Classpath and adopting it in Kaffe, even if that means
discarding some code we may have written.
If we could *selectively* adopt Classpath, it would be great.
> I suppose we could fix those bugs - radical I know but what the hell.
:-)
> I like competition - competition is a good thing- throwing away all
> we've done because of the perception of someone elses work is
> "better" (and I regularly look at Classpath's stuff and I don't think
> it's better) is plain stupid. I'd rather beat them.
I'll make a conic hat, write `stupid' on it and put it on :-)
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Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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