On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 04:17:26PM +0100, Chris Gray wrote: > On Tuesday 21 March 2006 15:53, Dalibor Topic wrote: > > > But alas, Sun currently sees other implementations as a threat to its > > business model as a proprietary Java vendor, so one has to deal with > > such things until they stop having a business interest in being a > > proprietary Java vendor (yeah, right), or go bust (yeah, right), or > > actually makes true on the 'participation age' and 'JDK community' talk > > (yeah, right). > > Yeah, right +1 :-0 > > There are quite a few people within Sun who think that what we (Harmony, > Kaffe, SableVM, Wonka, ...) are doing is cool - well, I've met a couple > anyway. But once things start to get "official", you're talking to another > brick in the wall ...
Unfortunately, the bright engineering people at Sun aren't the ones that run the Java show. Java is so depressingly backwards. We're solving problems over and over again that would not be problems in the first place if Java was managed competently, by people who have a clue about involving communities, and placed the platform before their business interests. cheers, dalibor topic > > (mother did it need to be so high?) > > -- > Chris Gray /k/ Embedded Java Solutions BE0503765045 > Embedded & Mobile Java, OSGi http://www.k-embedded-java.com/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] +32 3 216 0369 >
