squeak program delivery, etc

Dwight Hughes dwighth at ipa.net
Thu Dec 3 17:12:52 UTC 1998


Alan Kay wrote:
> 
> Alex --
> 
> Here are partial answers to your questions. An overall covering answer to
> all of the questions is that Squeak is an Open Source Software system and
> all of its code is thus under your control. i.e. you can have any answer
> you wish.
> 
> At 9:37 PM -0000 12/2/98, Alex Rice wrote:
> >Greetings, my name is Alex Rice and I'm a Java programmer. I came along
> >looking for something faster and less bloated and I think I've found it
> >in Squeak. I'm truly impressed by the philosophy of Squeak.
> >
> >A couple of newbie questions I still have after reading the FAQ and
> >skimming the mailing list archives:
> >

> >3)
> >
> >Is the Microsoft licensing effecting the development of Squeak at all?
> >Specifically, is the portability going to remain good, or will there be
> >a Win32 MS-Smalltalk which the whole world starts using, which will be
> >incompatible with the real Squeak?
> 
> I don't completely understand this question. There isn't any Microsoft
> licensing of Squeak. Unlike Java, Squeak contains a running standard of its
> VM and machinery to automatically make VMs. So there is no reason to depend
> on Sun or MS for anything.

I was puzzled too until I remembered the April 1 gag email sent to the
list a while back on this topic. Alex, pay it no mind - it bit several
on the list then also.

-- Dwight





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