Feature idea

[Gregor Zeitlinger]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Richard Dale wrote:
> Here are my plans for Gideon Java support:
> 3) Avoid Sun technology -'Java the Platform', such as AWT/Swing/Beans/JPDA 
> etc. Just stick to free software such as gcj or Kaffe, and use the java 
> language as a 'better C++' to write KDE and Qt apps. In my opinion, there are 
> too many license problems with Sun's libraries, and I don't think they tend 
> to be very well designed compared with Qt/KDE for instance.
sorry, but i didn't know of this licencing issue. could you give me a url?
and what is badly designed about java? I'm just wondering, because I'm
looking for a platform/language for a new GPL application, which should
run under Linux and Win. Is Java+KDE suitable for that?

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Gregor Zeitlinger      
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