Michael Emmel writes:
> There has been a request on the Java Lobby www.javalobby.org
> To reform the java lobby into a grass roots campaign to allow
> Java developers to take a lager role in the determination of
> java's future.
IMO the time and energy is better spent in supporting clean
room implementations like Japhar or Kaffe, Classpath, TYA,
or gjc.
Once a complete, robust open source clean room VM is
available and competitive on many platforms, the rules
will change anyway. Commercial products will have to be
better, and developer's will always have that fallback.
Sun's interests are different. No amount of lobbying will
change that, it's part of the business. In the end, it is
the code, not the petition, that makes the difference.
If there is no consolidation of Java's core (language, VM,
compiler, core classes, JNI, JVMDI), then a good deal of
its future might well be virtually non-existent anyway.
b.
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