Oh come on, Sony are massive... They're probably using a bit of everything once you account for their many divisions!
This is also Sony, and on the JVM: http://opensource.imageworks.com/?p=scalamigrations <http://opensource.imageworks.com/?p=scalamigrations> 2010/11/25 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > My theory (or wishful thinking): they're trying to sweet talk Apple into > adding Blu-Ray to Macs. > > It's really a pain not to have a Blu-Ray player on my Mac. > > -- > Cédric > > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> So many reasons. >> >> The most obvious ones: >> >> - Cheap ploy to court iPhone developers. >> >> - GNUstep is a lot more open than java. GNUstep is AFAIK open source >> primarily written by linux hackers. That'd be quite different and >> would feel a lot more open even before Oracle made the capital mistake >> of blowing up their own "openness" credibility by suing google based >> on patents. (Just to beat the dead horse some more: Whether or not >> Oracle is justified in trying to keep the java platform unified, the >> way they've gone about suing google is cyanide to the idea that you >> can trust OpenJDK for this sort of stuff, and very dangerous to the >> open source community. Possibly a good idea, but they should have >> found some other way). >> >> - On embedded devices I can see the point of not wanting a platform >> that is effectively designed around having a hefty VM for it to run >> fast. (J2ME notwithstanding, but that has its own problems). >> >> On Nov 24, 11:07 pm, CKoerner <[email protected]> wrote: >> > If Blu-Ray players choose Java, why not Snap? >> > >> > http://snap.sonydeveloper.com/pages/about/ >> > >> > Sony’s Networked Application Platform is a project designed to >> > leverage the open source community to build and evolve the next >> > generation application framework for consumer electronic devices. […] >> > >> > The foundation upon which this project is base comes from the GNUstep >> > community, whose origin dates back to the OpenStep standard developed >> > by NeXT Computer Inc (now Apple Computer Inc.). While Apple has >> > continued to update their specification in the form of Cocoa and Mac >> > OS X, the GNUstep branch of the tree has diverged considerably. >> >> -- >> 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > Cédric > > > -- > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Kevin Wright mail / gtalk / msn : [email protected] pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- 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.
