Does not stop a Company who is involved in another field , i.e. Banking, Medicine, Energy etc, etc, with worthy ideas being voted to the table to influence a language that impacts all these areas.
There is nothing wrong with this. The internet did not Spring from Computer Science community it came from a guy working in Physics. Again this sentiment is at best short sighted and at worst Dangerous. Thank 'Do no Wrong' Google and thank Josh 'I wrote a Collection API once' Bloch for the non adoption of Closures before you criticize James Gosling on caring about Java 2010/12/9 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Liam Knox <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think this is very short sighted. >> >> What gives Google, Oracle or anyone else divine rights to influence a >> language invented by one man? >> > > Maybe because people who have participated and influenced the language the > most these past years happen to work at Google? > > What's wrong with that? > > As discussed previously, this "one man" stopped caring and participating in > Java more than ten years ago, I'm glad that that people who influenced the > language continued to care and work on Java even after they left Sun. They > deserve our thanks and recognition. > > > >> Oracle is as much about cash as Credit Suisse. > > > All companies are about cash. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
