Ranjit asked for status reports. But I don’t have anything to report (since I am still not finished with the big gui update). So I will just point to the Kaffe plans of:
The Kaffe hackers seriously rock. And the cool thing is that when Jim finishes that last point of his plan (upgrade server hardware) the Kaffe, GNU Classpath, GNU Crypto and GCJ hackers will pull together some resources to work even more closely together!
The first report of Thomas his talk given at the Desktop Developers’ Conference is in.
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers were in the Melkweg today.
As I said before we need to get Thomas Fitzsimmons his own blog.
Here is what he just posted to the mailinglist:
Hi,
With my latest round of AWT patches we can now run Slime Volleyball –
in my opinion the best game on the web ;-) I’ve posted some screenshots
for your viewing pleasure:http://people.redhat.com/fitzsim/slime-volleyball-1-2004-07-12.png
http://people.redhat.com/fitzsim/slime-volleyball-2-2004-07-12.png
http://people.redhat.com/fitzsim/slime-volleyball-3-2004-07-12.pngEnjoy,
Tom
So get yourself some of that jhbuild gcj gui branch goodness and start playing!
Finally had time again to read. I can really recommend the books of J.M. Coetzee, Boyhood and Youth. Also bought Paul Graham his book Hackers and Painters, which is a very inspiring book giving hackers lots of hope. Also very recommended.
Please run to your magazine store to get a copy of Linux Journal which has the Native Eclipse article. The paper version has cute little pictures of the authors John Healy, Andrew Haley and Tom Tromey, so you can finally see how the heros that worked so hard on a free, native and fast eclipse look like.
Boudewijn Rempt wrote a follow up to his earlier article on Creating ‘native’ Qt applications with Java in which he examines creating a natively compiled shared library with gcj so it can be called from C++. The lesson to be learned from this article is that we need to add more examples to our manuals.
The motion in parlement to change the official Dutch vote against the derictive of the Counsel and for the version of the European Parlement didn’t make it. But we at least got a retraction of the vote in support. This doesn’t mean Europe is saved from patents on algorithms, business methods and ideas yet, but hopefully it is a step in the right direction. Hopefully we can get other European countries to join and support the European Parlement in this matter. I am really glad the Dutch parlement finally forced the minister to do this.
Some information in Dutch Nederland moet steun softwarepatenten intrekken (webwereld) and some background info in English Dutch Parliament forces Minister Brinkhorst to withdraw support for software patents directive (Press release FFII)
I liked how Dieter Van Uytvanck, spokesman of FFII Netherlands, stresses the importance of this decision:
This political signal reaches much further than just The
Netherlands. We hope that other European countries that also have
their doubts about the proposal of the Council will also withdraw
their support, so that the current proposal no longer has a
majority. The historic precedent has been set now.Let this be a lesson to the lawmakers in Brussels: the European
citizen watches you closely. It is much better to take this into
account from the beginning than to get into trouble later.
