By gst
via taose.blogspot.com
Published: Aug 18 2007 / 10:09
I'm a proud member of the FSF as well as the ASF. For years, the incompatibility between the GPL and the ASL drove me nuts as well as many other developers. Building a complete free software Java platform is a Herculean task, and the duplication of effort between Classpath and Harmony struck me as needless. Of course the developers involved are free to do as they please, and I happily support any effort producing free software, but from the practical standpoint of just wanting one to use, neither had achieved parity with the Sun implementation. As a Java developer who wanted to make a living , I needed a rock-solid stable Java, and there just wasn't a free software option.
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