On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Whether there is a legal basis and whether a lawsuit is pragmatically a good idea are two completely different questions. > 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? So they gave us a new roadmap, which is the same as the old roadmap. Actually no. For Apache, the new roadmap is a dead end. So I guess we should just move on. I'm not sure what you'd have Apache do: stay in the JCP even though it's proven itself to be unwilling to enforce its own agreements? > Sure, Java is not an open standard. I think this is the reality we are facing. It's unclear to me what that means for my personal interests in the Java community. Greg -- 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.
