On Thursday 01 July 2004 20:43, you wrote:

Sid

Your arguments seem emotional, poorly founded, irrational overreactions stemmed from unrealistic and idealistic goals, and you would be best to drop the subject.

What are the unrealistic and idealistic goals you refer to?  How is it emotional, poorly founded and an overreaction.  You would be best to do better :-)

If you really want to help, do some real research into what IBM is doing give them real-world reasons to do what you ask, things that managers will respond to.

They have themselves given reasons for open-sourcing their JVM.  I'm just asking them to do it.

This isn't a personal attack and I apoligise if this is the way I come across. I really think you're overreacting here, try to > approach the situation pragmatically.

Hey no worries Dr Spooner.  But unfortunately you've got yourself into an interesting situation.  Please read carefully what you have written and you will see that all you have done is given us your opinion with "jack" to back them up.

Best Regards

And to you my friend. Sid.