Hi:

If you have not seen my previous emails asking for your vote for a native 
port of Java on *BSD at Sun's Java Developers Connection (JDC), please vote 
now (JDC membership is free) at:

* http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4288745.html

If you would like more information, please see:

* http://www.freebsd.org/java

If have voted already, THANK YOU.  Did you know that you have 3 votes? 
(unethical? Hey I don't make the rules)

Now for some statistics:  Since my first message about 3 weeks ago, nearly 
400 votes have been recorded for the Java on FreeBSD Request for Enhancement 
(RFE), an increase of 13.4%!  Our RFE now has 4 times as many votes as the 
#2 RFE, and as many votes as the next 8.  The more votes that we can get, 
the more powerful is the *BSD message to Sun.

FYI: IBM has announced an "early release" of JDK 1.3 on Linux. Several *BSD 
friendly folks have started requesting a port of the IBM JDK in the 
discussion forum at:

* 
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/aw.nsf/discussion?ReadForm&/forum/linuxjdk.nsf/discussion?createdocument
(Look for "FreeBSD support" in the Linux-JDK-1.3.0 discussion list.)

This will be my last "get out the vote" message for a while, as I think that 
I have reached most people who care to vote.

Lastly, I would like to thank the FreeBSD Java porting team once again for 
their outstanding efforts.  I, myself, am not a part of the java porting 
team, just a user who would like to use a native port and support the *BSD 
platform.

John

PS Please forward this message to any person, list, or organization
that may want to support this effort.
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