About removing stale content from the JRE, how about let those people and companies *pay* to keep their favorite frameworks in the JRE, and start to remove the least favorite feature every month.
If you want to keep something in, you keep paying so that it is not the least favorite for the month, for as long as you want to keep it. Could be a revenue generator for Sun. If ten thousand Swing developers wants to keep Swing in, each can pay $10 a month to keep it off the chopping board. If HP wants to keep Motif support it, they can pay $100,000 to keep it in. If an "opt-in" check box on the JRE installation screen is worth Beeellions of dollars, keeping a dead feature in the JRE should be worth something to someone so that they'd pay good money for. :) <== Warning: This is not a serious proposal. -- Weiqi Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
