>
Another big Ditto from me.
>
> James Seigel wrote:
>
> > I think this group knows who to credit for the work in the trenches when no one
> > else was supporting us developers on the Linux platform. As always I give thanks
> > to blackdown for their supreme efforts to make this real!
> >
I also hope that some of the benefits flow back from the Sun/Imprise/IBM efforts to
the blackdown team.
I think it is imporant for Sun to ensure that this happens. If efforts such as the
excellent effort put in by the blackdown team, ultimately end up being just a source
for exploitation by the commercial releases, so they can add 10% and release a better
product, then the people behind these efforts are going to be quickly disillusioned
and they will leave. If the Sun Community process becomes a one way street, in this
fashon, then it will die a quick death.
The race between commercial vendors, while VERY helpful in providing focussed
resources and money on the problem, does miss out on the "Community" side of the
development fence, the cooperation bits, the reduction of duplicated effort and
building a shared common product, rather than many similar products.
This may be a product of the Sun community licence. Personally I believe the GNU
licence supports this community process better, but am interested to see how the Sun
licence develops.
Anyway, thanks again to all the blackdown developers, your efforts are much
appreciated and have done much for a long time a to fill a java void on linux.
Cheers
Mark
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