Re: [Sablevm-developer] sablevm description

[Chris P. <chr...@ma...>]

Okay, I hadn't considered the negative side of things.  Perhaps I should 
have asked, "What's the rationale for not having the word Java appear 
...".  Anyway, thanks for the explanation.

Chris

Prof. Etienne M. Gagnon wrote:

>"Java" is a trademark.  SableVM is in no relation whatsoever with that
>trademark.
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>From my discussions with the FSF people, I gathered that it would
>apparently be acceptable to write: a portable bytecode interpreter for
>the Java language.  But, I want sablevm to remain open, in the medium
>to long term, to making non-standard extentions to the virtual
>machine.  One could easily think that getting parametric types into
>the VM & a related bytecode verifier would be far preferable to Sun's
>current proposal to add parametric types in the high-level language
>that get erased when compiled to bytecode (thus compromizing the
>security, e.g. imagine a "Stack of SecureChannels" where the VM only
>instanciates a normal Stack + malicious network class accessing the
>Stack object...)
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>I personally can live without the word Java in the short description
>of the package.  The web page already adds: "implementing the Java
>virtual machine specification, second edition".  I think 99% of people
>understand that SableVM is a Jvm.
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>Also, SableVM is already linked from most web sites linking to Free
>Jvms.
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>In summary, I'd like to remain away from any even remote legal problem
>related to this trademark.  Remember that Sun actually forced many web
>page owners and projects to remove the word "java" from their
>URLs/projects names.
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>>Don't you think you should say "portable Java bytecode interpreter"?  
>>You might get more hits.
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>Don't we already have enough hits?!!!  I think SF reports a rating of
>98.x%.  That's quite high.  I suggest we concentrate on making SableVM
>run more applications, instead of over-hyping it.
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>Etienne
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>On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:24:14PM -0500, Chris Pickett wrote:
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>>Hi Etienne,
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>>On sourceforge, the current description for sablevm is:
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>>SableVM is a portable bytecode interpreter. Its goals are to be 
>>reasonably small, fast, and efficient, as well as providing a 
>>well-designed and robust platform for conducting research. This version 
>>fixes a few bugs.
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