On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 18:45 -0500, Temlakos wrote: > Kurt Wall wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:36:12PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > > > >>>On Monday 13 November 2006 19:05, temlakos@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>> > >>>>Sun did it! They released all versions of Java under GNU GPL v2. Read > >>>>this article for the details. Now: what will happen to the GNU Compiler > >>>>for Java (gcj)? Will they be able to use Sun's own Java code to make the > >>>>project fully compatible with all the Java applications built with Sun's > >>>>version? Or will gcj give way completely to the presently built Java > >>>>Development Kit? Will a fully Sun-compatible Java development > >>>>environment be available for Fedora Core 7? 6? > >> > >>Praise GAWD! <gibbers thankfully> Ric > > > > > > I'm simply stunned. Delighted, to be sure, but stunned. Not that Ric > > is gibbering thankfully -- he usually gibbers with little provocation -- > > but that Sun actually released Java under the GPL. > > > > Kurt > > Well, you can believe it. The news came to me from eWeek, and they don't > usually miss. I'm waiting with bated breath for Steve Vaughn-Nichols to > comment on this. > > I agree--this is H-U-G-E. Well, this is as good a thread as any to post one minor miracle that also happened today. I was ranting and distraught to have lost all of my /var/www backup on one of those ill-fated Dvd's. I was really really really bummed as some of the content was a writer's write once affair that I really didn't want to have to try to replicate. I was more afraid I couldn't. You tell me, it's all back! Every file and every project with pics and stuff related to www.wayward4now.net. It's not up yet as I haven't gotten a static IP yet, and I just might find a higher speed server farm setup to put it on, but here's the little miracle. I still can't mount that Dvd! I did a clean install, the drives reformated and /opt is empty. Stuff happens and you just give thanks to the Creator. Somehow it burped long enough to restore. I am blown away. Java happens and my little site is ready for primetime. The Universe provides folks, on it's own schedule not ours. Peace, Ric
