It means, in short, that there are interesting times ahead for Java... since clearly Oracle doesn't "get" (or at least buy into) what open source means. In the short term, as Travis suggests, one way or another there will be some Java one can use. In the long term, if being "open" matters to you, Java will become an increasingly complicated choice.
Vern On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Jonathan Bartels < [email protected]> wrote: > > http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/12/apache-resigns-from-jcp-in-protest-of-oracle-governance-failures.ars > > What does mean, if anything, for the future of Java? Quite frankly a > lot of this goes way over my head. I'm hoping someone here might be > able to help me figure out what impact this could have on mere > developers like me. > > -- > ----- > Jonathan Bartels > > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org > > This is a public list and all posts are archived publicly. Please keep this > in mind before posting. > -- Vern Ceder [email protected], [email protected] The Quick Python Book, 2nd Ed - http://bit.ly/bRsWDW
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