On Saturday 3 June 2000, at 0 h 26, the keyboard of "Dr. Simon Read" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think the Java package maintainers should give serious thought to > their policy, especially with respect to Java 2. The fact that Java 2 is not publicly redistributable is beyond Debian's control. > Java and CORBA are > likely to be the basis of a new class of distributed systems that will > change the way enterprises build systems. Pure marketing hype. And even if Corba succeeds (remember that KDE just dropped Corba), you cannot be sure it will be with Java. (Oh, BTW, I use Java+Corba with the JDK 1.1 shipped with Potato.)
