On Mar 30, 10:36 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > Fine work in hunting down what this mess is really about. Never knew > this committee thing could got so politically complex.
Thanks. I'm glad I found the minutes, as they provide a lot more background. At this point, I'm pretty comfortable saying publicly that everyone else in the JCP has been willing to tell Sun they were wrong (at least once), not just Apache. > FWIW, there is one discrepancy I can see in Sun's behaviour insofar as > the (limited) EC meeting minutes can tell: > > Sun wants to trade a loss of control against getting a more or less > free ride in getting a possible eventual Umbrella java7 JSR passed > through the EC without any issues. > > Why? I have been as scrupulous as possible to publish what is demonstrable by public links, rather than what I may know personally. Sadly, that means I can't speculate on certain areas. > Is there going to be a bombshell in the java7 spec that would warrant > all of that? I think that the public info suggests all development is via OpenJDK, so I would be surprised to see a bombshell type surprise. Stephen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
