Re: Quitting debian-java

2001-03-04 Thread Alexander Hvostov
Ben, Sorry, I'm feeling rather cranky at the moment. Maybe I shouldn't have gone through my mail... Regards, Alex. --- PGP/GPG Fingerprint: EFD1 AC6C 7ED5 E453 C367 AC7A B474 16E0 758D 7ED9 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/CM>CC/IT d- s:+ a16 C++()>$ UL>$ P--- L++>+

Re: Quitting debian-java

2001-03-04 Thread Ben Burton
Fwiw, one may observe the following snippets from postings five minutes apart to debian-java and debian-devel: On Sun, 4 Mar 2001 20:29, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > Is this guy really even worth replying to? Sheesh... Come back and talk to > me when you have a fscking clue. Thanks. On Sun, 4 M

Re: Quitting debian-java

2001-03-04 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Vincent Renardias wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > > > The fact that there are no Free JVMs/compilers at present is a temporary > > problem. Java is, in effect, non-free for now, but this will change when > > these projects approach completion. Java i

Re: Quitting debian-java

2001-03-04 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Friday 2 March 2001, at 18 h 51, > Alexander Hvostov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Those who believe Java and free software is a sad landscape are woefully > > unaware of reality... > > I must confess my lack of experience with Java. Certa

Re: Quitting debian-java

2001-03-04 Thread Alexander Hvostov
Ben, Sorry, I'm feeling rather cranky at the moment. Maybe I shouldn't have gone through my mail... Regards, Alex. --- PGP/GPG Fingerprint: EFD1 AC6C 7ED5 E453 C367 AC7A B474 16E0 758D 7ED9 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/CM>CC/IT d- s:+ a16 C++()>$ UL>$ P--- L++>

Re: Quitting debian-java

2001-03-04 Thread Ben Burton
Fwiw, one may observe the following snippets from postings five minutes apart to debian-java and debian-devel: On Sun, 4 Mar 2001 20:29, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > Is this guy really even worth replying to? Sheesh... Come back and talk to > me when you have a fscking clue. Thanks. On Sun, 4

Re: Quitting debian-java

2001-03-04 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Vincent Renardias wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > > > The fact that there are no Free JVMs/compilers at present is a temporary > > problem. Java is, in effect, non-free for now, but this will change when > > these projects approach completion. Java

Re: Quitting debian-java

2001-03-04 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Friday 2 March 2001, at 18 h 51, > Alexander Hvostov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Those who believe Java and free software is a sad landscape are woefully > > unaware of reality... > > I must confess my lack of experience with Java. Cert

Re: Quitting debian-java

2001-03-04 Thread Mark W. Eichin
> Theory: the problem is only temporary > Practice: it's been temporary for 5 full years :( So we're about where C++ was in 1993. Not too bad, but people are less patient than they were then :-)

Re: Quitting debian-java

2001-03-04 Thread Mark W. Eichin
> Theory: the problem is only temporary > Practice: it's been temporary for 5 full years :( So we're about where C++ was in 1993. Not too bad, but people are less patient than they were then :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Quitting debian-java

2001-03-04 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > The fact that there are no Free JVMs/compilers at present is a temporary > problem. Java is, in effect, non-free for now, but this will change when > these projects approach completion. Java is not really a moving target as > far as I can tell, so th

Re: Quitting debian-java

2001-03-04 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > The fact that there are no Free JVMs/compilers at present is a temporary > problem. Java is, in effect, non-free for now, but this will change when > these projects approach completion. Java is not really a moving target as > far as I can tell, so t