Like any good story there is a backstory. And this one has been creeping under the radar for a year.
At the heart of it is the control of the java language and who controls it. Vern Ceder <[email protected]> wrote: >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 > >_______________________________________________ >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. _______________________________________________ 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.
