It would seem that the GPL was chosen so as to try to dissuade those who might want to fork the source code. While commercial, closed-source forks are out of the question now, it's also unlikely that we will see a separate, open source fork. Prominent GPL'ed projects have rarely been forked. One major case was that of GCC (forked into EGCS), but that was a rather severe situation. The development of the FSF's GCC branch had stagnated to a horrible extent before the fork was made. This likely won't be the cas
Java needs a branch that has the cruft removed, both from the VM and from the class library. A new class library is needed, taking full advantage of generics and the other Java 1.5 features. The VM needs some major upgrades, notably in the area of garbage collection, memory usage reductions, and speed improvements. The backwards compatibility requirements currently forced on Sun seem to have prevented this from happening.
Amazing you guys say this now. Yesterday someone would have argued java is clean and fast and nothing could beat it. Now that, of course, it's happening, you're all for cleaning it up and admitting it's downsides.
Sort of reminds me of Apple's switch to intel. For years powerpc was the best processor for the mac. The g5 was a super computer. The day they switched? Oh the yohan is going to be so powerful! I can't wait for the dual core!
"The VM needs some major upgrades, notably in the area of garbage collection, memory usage reductions, and speed improvements."..Amazing you guys say this now. Yesterday someone would have argued java is clean and fast and nothing could beat it. Now that, of course, it's happening, you're all for cleaning it up and admitting it's downsides. Sort of reminds me of Apple's switch to intel.
You shouldn't confuse the author of the parent post with the Java crowd in general. You used the term "you guys" (referr
The perversity of nature is nowhere better demonstrated by the fact that, when
exposed to the same atmosphere, bread becomes hard while crackers become soft.
Are they trying to limit forks? (Score:0, Insightful)
Prominent GPL'ed projects have rarely been forked. One major case was that of GCC (forked into EGCS), but that was a rather severe situation. The development of the FSF's GCC branch had stagnated to a horrible extent before the fork was made. This likely won't be the cas
Re:Are they trying to limit forks? (Score:3, Interesting)
Amazing you guys say this now. Yesterday someone would have argued java is clean and fast and nothing could beat it. Now that, of course, it's happening, you're all for cleaning it up and admitting it's downsides.
Sort of reminds me of Apple's switch to intel. For years powerpc was the best processor for the mac. The g5 was a super computer. The day they switched? Oh the yohan is going to be so powerful! I can't wait for the dual core!
Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
You shouldn't confuse the author of the parent post with the Java crowd in general. You used the term "you guys" (referr