Re: [OS:N:] Re: Students making money off school computers
James Michael DuPont <[email protected]>
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--- Bill Kendrick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:54:35PM -0400, Kevin Cole wrote: > > Seriously, I see SOME of what you're getting at. I too am a little > > concerned when vendors/promoters of open source get in bed with > closed > > source vendors. Though Java and Flash are very available today, is > > there anything preventing Macromedia from saying tomorrow "We've > > changed our minds, and all of you who've heavily invested your data > in > > our product are now in our clutches. Bwah-hah-hah."? > > Hehe... time to sit back and wait for SVG, I guess. :) > > There ARE open source implementations of Java JVMs, though, right? > ... So one doesn't NEED to be tied to Sun, for example. > (I'm not big into Java, so I could be mistaken...) > Again, to do that, you might need to dump out the JVM instructions into IL an run it on the pnet engine. That would be also in violation of the digtal think contract. mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Subscription and Archive: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/open-source-now-list/ - For K12OS technical help join K12OSN: <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn>