Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 14th Nov 2006 17:31 UTC, submitted by Joel Dahl
"The FreeBSD Foundation is kicking off its Fall Fundraising Campaign! The success of this effort will have a large impact on our budget for next year. There are many ways that you can help us meet our goal of raising over USD 200000."
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2005-11-29
"I don't see any benefit to having a body of people toady to Sun regarding Java, and now it is even being made a moot point as Java goes GPL."
No, having redistributable native Java binaries was a big improvement. A lot of time and effort was put into it and nobody could have foreseen Sun's sudden GPL'ing of Java. Before the redistributable binaries if you needed (or wanted) native Java you had to sign up on Sun's website and piss around fetching a whole lot of files -- individually (and yes, this is with using the ports tree to compile) -- and wait for things to compile -- and the fact that linux-java was needed to bootstrap the build of the native-java (or I recall something of this nature)... it was unacceptably bothersome.
Money was spent because it had to be. The native java had to pass a bunch of Sun tests in order to be worthy of distribution. Having a Sun blessed JDK means a lot to the corporate guys making the decision to have their developers spend time developing for and supporting x_os.