On 11/09/2010 10:35 PM, Casper Bang wrote:
A round of applause from my little home office if they follow through
with it.
Yeah you are making that very clear here and via Twitter. Listen,
either Java is an open standard, or it's not! And if it's not, then
Java's greatest asset (being an open standard) falls under the
category of false marketing and Oracle should be held accountable. If
Apache were a large corporation with lots of cash, they could sue...
I don't take this. Apache, like FSF, is the inventor and promoter of a
licensing scheme that implies legal protection. Thus, I assume that they
are perfectly equipped for lawsuits (and since the question arose from
the old Sun times, they could sue Sun in a moment of weakness). Thus, I
completely agree with Chris that there were no legal basis for anything.
Now, I've just read at DZone that they're menacing a vote against Java
7. Now I declare myself in the bag of people that got tired of this.
This point is lost, let's move on to next one. We're been complaining
with Sun for years because of the stall, and now that we have a roadmap
we're going to boycott it? Crazy.
Sure, Java is not an open standard. In the perfect world it would be,
but a working, vibrant open technology that is not an open standard is
better than nothing.
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