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"William L. Thomson Jr." <wltjr@g.o> posted |
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1206840815.11943.5.camel@××××××××××××××××××××.com, excerpted below, on |
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> On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 23:41 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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>> Joining us from the land of the pyramids, we have Ahmed "b33fc0d3" |
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>> Ammar. Although originally from Egypt |
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> Welcome, finally! So do you code like an Egyptian? :) 80s pun |
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How many here will be old enough to get that? <raises hand, um, |
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hopefully not too soon cane> |
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> For all you that don't know, Ahmed here has a interest in open source |
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> Java. Others pointed me to a icedtea/openjdk ebuild he had in google |
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> development space. It should be hitting an overlay soon, either |
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> java-experiment or java-overlay. |
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> So for all your open source java fetishes, Ahmed is your man. If that's |
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> not throwing him the under the bus and on the barbie afterward. :) |
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Definitely welcome, then! As a FLOSS-only user I've been waiting for a |
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decent full open source Java implementation in the tree for awhile, so |
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anyone and anything that is movement in that direction is certainly |
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welcome here! =8^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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