> As impressive as it was for Dan Ingalls to make that version of  
> Squeak, and
> then Pavel to decompile the result into source, so what? What is  
> the license
> of it all (either origins or decompiled version)? How well factored  
> is it?

This is not clear, you're right.

> Does it have nay hope to be supported by a community? Does it take  
> advantage
> of the Java/JVM platform, including threading and multi-processor  
> support?
> Or interoperate easily back and forth with Java libraries like  
> Jython can?

I haven't looked at deeply, but I strongly suspect that no  
interaction is actually possible with Java.

I am currently working on this.
http://bergel.eu/athena for more info

Cheers,
Alexandre

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