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On 8/31/10 13:28 , Jess Holle wrote:
> What about heavy pressure on Oracle via all possible venues so
> that they feel they need to establish a different tone in their
> JavaOne keynote?
>
> I don't think Oracle cares much about upsetting a small minority
> of the community.  If they get the impression that those who are
> concerned/upset are either not a small minority or are
> sufficiently vocal to upset the rest of the community, then I
> believe they'll adjust their approach (as little as they feel they
> can get away with, of course).
>
I think that one possibility is that Oracle doesn't care about
upsetting the whole community, since the community itself is the
minority. You bet that a large corporate such as Oracle has got tools
(market research, etc...) to have some decent figures about who like
and don't like them. Unfortunately, we, the community, don't have any
such tool (we use the blogs to pretend to measure our size, but this
is just bullshit that leads to gross overestimates).

Frankly, I'd accept Kevin's provocation: if you get bored by Ellison's
keynotes, it would be practical to move to another VM ecosystem such
as LLVM (and, of course, forcing yourself not to be bored by Jobs'
keynotes).

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