Talk:Free Java implementations

Name of article

I understand there is some legal issues with usage of the word "Java" that some or most free Java developers are concerned about. Some editors seem to want this article to retain its former name Free Runtimes. There is several problems with this:

Obvious capitalisation problem (capital R), easily fixable
"Free runtimes" for what? Is it for .NET, for Perl, etc? No, it is for Java programs. The title should be more specific, which is hard if we cannot use Java. GNU Classpath itself dubs itself as "GNU Classpath, Essential Libraries for Java" [1], so what is the problem here?

Haakon 12:03, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

we need to change the name of this article

why limitating ourselves to the runtimes,because java is a technology we must talk about all aspect of java and free software including :the software that are programed in hava and migrated to classpath and GJC,some of theses software include openoffice(after negociation :with the FSF,openoffice can now also run on a free java software platform) or Azureus

i propose(please add your own idea if you have some):

Java(Free Software)
Free Java Implementations

We must also present roughly java and how it is used such as in programs(=>GJC),javascript(=>runtime)... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.27.13.176 (talk)

Thanks for the thoughts. I do agree that restricting this article to runtimes only seems a bit arbitrary. I like the idea to rename the article to "Free Java implementation" (not singular, not plural). However, until that is done, this article is still about free Java runtimes, so I removed the text you inserted about compilers and applications. Haakon 09:33, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]