"William L. Thomson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:33:35 -0400:
> On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 23:41 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: >> Joining us from the land of the pyramids, we have Ahmed "b33fc0d3" >> Ammar. Although originally from Egypt > > Welcome, finally! So do you code like an Egyptian? :) 80s pun How many here will be old enough to get that? <raises hand, um, hopefully not too soon cane> > For all you that don't know, Ahmed here has a interest in open source > Java. Others pointed me to a icedtea/openjdk ebuild he had in google > development space. It should be hitting an overlay soon, either > java-experiment or java-overlay. > > So for all your open source java fetishes, Ahmed is your man. If that's > not throwing him the under the bus and on the barbie afterward. :) Definitely welcome, then! As a FLOSS-only user I've been waiting for a decent full open source Java implementation in the tree for awhile, so anyone and anything that is movement in that direction is certainly welcome here! =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
