Fedora not "free" enough for GNU?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 16:38:12 UTC 2008


Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:55:26AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> I think I've missed something if that's actually the case.  Is there 
>> really a non-Sun java that is 100% compatible?  When I run java apps, I 
> 
> IBM I believe
> 
>> don't want something "interesting" to happen.
> 
> Thats about the trademark name not the code. You don't care what running
> 'frobozz' does, but what 'java' means..

Right - but I've just seen too much stuff that pretends to be java that 
isn't quite.  My latest encounter is a cell phone that doesn't give the 
jvm access to its soft (and only) keyboard.  You can install mini-opera 
but you can't type a url...

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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