From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-04-02T18:51:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Sun's Overview of Ruby and JRuby

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thufir wrote:
| On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:34:54 +0900, Veloso wrote:
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|> This strikes me as a case where Sun's enlightened self interest is
|> serving the open source community.
|>
|> I wonder: Does anyone think I am being naive about this?
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| It's all good because Ruby, and, hopefully, someday, Java, will be
| GPL'ed.  IronRuby is a tad different because the Microsoft VM is closed.
| The Java VM is closed (I think) but Java is, or will be, open :)

Microsoft's VM has an open source implementation (in cooperation with MS
and Novell), in from of the Mono Project.

- -- Phillip Gawlowski

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