Hi, I hate to see a great people like you leaving. I haven't been reading all other followups yet, so please forgive me if there's any repeated message.
> Therefore, I stop maintaining java-common (I will send an official ITO unless > someone steps in really fast) and the proposed Java policy. Thanks for your great job. > One of the reasons I stop using Java is that it is too painful when you are > commited to free software: most real programs depend on non-free (JDK >= 1.3, > Swing). Even for those who do not, gcj and kaffe (unlike jikes) are, in their > released versions, far from being 100 % ready. At least for kaffe, the > problems of insufficient releases is worse in Debian because the package is > too old. Just for everybody's information. kaffe is in fact developed under a contract to Microsoft, please see http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,20225,00.html Also one of the very annoying thing in kaffe bother me much is that it has not implemented java.security. It is a mistake or an intention to make Java insecure? See http://www.kaffe.org/cgi-bin/kaffe/security?user=guest;addsignature=1 How could one build a serious application without java.security? >Worse, many people in the free software world seem to care very little about the problem. Perhaps we have not educated legislators to understand the threat. (j/k) ^_^ I wish you have a better future. Good luck man. Alan.
