On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Jon Scott Stevens wrote:

> I like the title. :-)
> 
> <http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news.html#0313.1>
> 
> -jon

Jon, I believe their vote was to allow the proposal to move on to public 
review stage. And I believe this is the _right_ thing to do. 

The potential users are now supposed to send feedback - the same
thing happened with the W3C policy on patents, where most corporations
were more than happy to allow specs with patents. It seems 
people had a different opinion, and W3C did listen.
If JCP will not listen - too bad, because it's not JCP that 
makes the standard, but the people who use it. 

If we have a policy of not using non-open standards in our
projects - and if we support or develop competing open-specs,
then there is a chance the non-open specs will not be 
'standards', but just pieces of paper with the word standard
in the title. 

Costin






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