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On 16/01/17 17:40, Bill Chatfield via java wrote:
> 
> Also, I feel that gcj was a great achievement on the part of the FSF
> and the open source community. It's nothing to be ashamed of. It
> shows the resourcefulness and ingenuity of the community.

Well, yeah, but it'd take a lot of work to maintain GCJ.  And
unmaintained software is a major liability.  For anyone who needs GCJ,
its old sources are not going to disappear.

Andrew.