More Java guidelines questions

[Rahul Sundaram]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 18:10 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Do you have an estimate for the man-hours of modifications it took to 
>> make that possible to help others decide on the feasibility of using gcj 
>>   instead of Sun Java in general?
> 
> I don't, but that's a moot point because Fedora couldn't ship Sun Java.
> I'd like to think that a lot of the work that went into GCJ aided in the
> push to get Sun to open up Java so that we /could/ ship it.

Well Fedora not including Sun Java was cited as one the major reasons 
why Sun choose to open source Java and specifically under GPL

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9624

As to the amount of effort that took for Eclipse to run under GCJ

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7413

Rahul