Re: JAVA IS THE TIMEX SINCLAIR EMULATOR OF THE 90's

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From: Paul Ramsey
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 00:00

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jlong@primenet.com (John Long) wrote:

>What I'm wondering is just what Sun owns, as intellectual property, 
>and if someone produces a Java compiler or interpreter, would they
>be violating any rights. The couldn't call it Java of course, but
>they could say it "runs Java(tm) code". 

Well, I don't know anything about copyright, but I do know that there
is already a project in motion creating a public domain java compiler
under the GNU public licence, to be known as "guava".  There's already
a 0.1 version out, actually.

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From: Paul Ramsey <ramsey@math.uvic.ca>
Subject: Re: JAVA IS THE TIMEX SINCLAIR EMULATOR OF THE 90's
Date: 1996/01/30
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