any reason to use Sun's Java?

[Joe Klemmer]

On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 20:31 +1100, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:

> > But under which license?  Probably the same as they open sourced solaris. 
> > Nothing from solaris can cross pollinate to linux without violating a
> > license.  (I always thought the GNU crowd were fanatics, but now I'm
> > rethinking that stance.)
> 
> Well, that doesn't stop you from /using/ an open-sourced Java on Linux
> (although there could well be problems linking it with glibc). The main
> issue with the Solaris licence is that it means that Solaris code can't
> make it into the Linux kernel.

	For another take on this...

	Often I will install many different JVM's just so I can have the option
to use the one that works best for the situation.  I install them
in /opt when I can and then use a collection of simlinks to pick and
choose the JVM I want to use.

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