On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> But those cases are very few and far between considering the "perceived" >> number of violations extant. As predicted, out of the most famous of >> those, the SCO debacle, only the lawyers will actually see any grocery >> money from that. Neither IBM nor NOVEL will see 1% of whats owed them by >> the time the fat lady sings. SCO is doing their damnedest to burn through >> whats left in spite of the bankruptcy rules. They are NOT going to go >> after a Joe & Jill Sixpack with $275 in the bank. > >Well that's easy to say unless you get caught in a patent lawsuit. Even >getting a wrong one out of court can set you back by a few million >dollars. Don't think SCO case didn't cause serious money for everyone >involved. As I said, the only winners were the legal people. [...] >What fork? OpenJDK and IcedTea has very few differences. GCJ is not a >fork but a entirely separate implementation which has a few advantages >still like more architecture support, native compilation and so on. > >Rahul We'll have to look at that when I finally update this box to F8. How well does it integrate with firefox will probably set the tone of the discussions. Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. -- Benjamin Disraeli
