22 July 2004 - java_dev (original) (raw)
Java developers
July 22nd, 2004
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| | 08:55 pm - tragek I'm currently in the midst of a little ethical debate. Having used debian for a very long time, I have become accustomed to, and very supportive of it's free software guidelines and social contract. The problem lies here in java. I really want to get deep into java, however I see a point rapidly approaching when the free compilers and VMs inside of the debian repositories are not going to be able to run these java programs. Already, eclipse 3.0 is out of reach, unless I install sun's JDK. However, the terms of the JDK licence are pretty scary, and infact may affect my ability to develop free software at a later date. (For example, I would be barred from contributing to free VMs such as sablevm etc.)Has anyone here actually read the licence on the java jdk, and is it still worth it to give up my freedom, in order to run and write java software? |
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| | 11:13 pm - slamice Alright,I'm making an applet which edits an image, but I can't get the image from an URL to display on the same window where the buttons are. Someone told me that there was an embed class somewhere, but I can't find it. Anyone know? |
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