Re: [javaCompiler-users] [Fwd: Release of NativeJ (formerly known as javaCompiler) version 0.9]

[Hendy I. <gau...@gm...>]

On 11/14/06, Sean McNamara <sm...@gm...> wrote:
> Be that as it may, I am saddened to see another OSS project dry up, and
It'd be interesting if a sidestep alternative (e.g. similar to
MySQL/Qt license) is possible with JavaCompiler.

> And yes, it would appear that it competes directly with Excelsior JET
> (of which I have used a trial and it seems shockingly similar in
> purpose...!) Only difference is that Excelsior's whole toolchain is
> built on proprietary technology, right? They didn't use MingW too, did
> they?!
Proprietary isn't always "bad". But it can be very bad if the company
is out of business. (For OSS though, it's still bad if this happens,
but at least if you're brave enough you can just fix the source code
yourself)

Competing with Excelsior, though, IMHO, would be a very... very daunting task.
(BTW, another IMHO, even though gcj+classpath+maybe some other
"subcomponents" of JavaCompiler licenses' allow this, I don't really
"fit-in" to the idea of building something 100% commercial out of
mostly FOSS projects)

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