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There are quite a few alternate commercial VMs including Oracle's own JRockit, IBM's commercial JVM and JVMs by some startups such as Fiji. But Sun/Oracle appar

There are quite a few alternate commercial VMs including Oracle's own JRockit, IBM's commercial JVM and JVMs by some startups such as Fiji. But Sun/Oracle apparently had a problem with an alternate Apache licensed VM.

sciboy 16y ago
Wouldn't this mean that JRockit et al would no longer have to pay licenses for their implementations?
- wmf 16y ago
  No, because the deal was that open source VMs get a free license but commercial VMs have to pay. Basically if you can afford to pay you have to pay.
  - sciboy 16y ago
    No, because once something is bsd or apache licensed you could repackage it as a commercial vm.