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Talk to Sun's 'Open Source Diva'
Danese Cooper is Manager of Sun's Open Source Program Office. A Google search on Danese turns up more than 1000 results. She's a frequent speaker at IT industry events and conferences, and is, without question, Sun's staunchest internal Open Source advocate. Sun is moving toward Open Source in fits and starts, and Danese is behind a lot of that motion. Feel free to ask her anything you want (one question per post. please) about the trials and tribulations of being an Open Source person within a company that hasn't yet fully grasped the concept, and how she goes about trying to change that. We'll post her answers to 10 of the highest-moderated questions within the next week or so. The only question she can't answer is whether/when Java might be Open Sourced. I already asked her, and she replied, "Sadly, I have no news on that..."
She has a common surname. Here's the correct search, which returns 212 results.
A Google search of CmdrTaco gets about 12,000 hits. I guess we know who would be on top in that relationship!
Don't wait till Sun is finally "ready" to make the Java Platform Free Software. Use what we already have today.
) and you have a great programming language integrated with a free desktop environment.
The GNU Classpath project (http://www.classpath.org/) brings us the standard Java runtime libraries (except Swing, but see below). And they have recently merged with GCJ (http://gcc.gnu.org/java) which allows you to compile your applications to native code. You can even mix and match interpreted Java bytecode, with native compiled Java libraries and C++ code (http://gcc.gnu.org/java/papers/cni/t1.html)!
Then you use the GNOME java bindings (http://java-gnome.sf.net/) or the KDE java bindings (http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/java/
There are even free J2EE things out their such as JBoss (http://www.jboss.org) and Jakarta (jakarta.apache.org). Sun now even includes parts of that project into their own (proprietary) Java platform releases!
Not having any idea how you look, I'm curious: As one of the few high-profile she-nerds, do you find geeks coming on to you often? If so, what approaches seem to be the most common?
I'm gonna have to take this bit by bit so as not to confuse you.
Funny, you call some one sexist and follow it with a derogatory term for a female body part (the vagina).
No, twat is a derogatory term for a person. It means vagina, it's called slang. It isn't sexist, it may be construed as rude, but not sexist.
On top of that, you offend Christians across the board by using Jesus Christ's name for no apparent reason, certainly not one pertaining to Christ.
I don't remember saying the guy offended anyone. I just said he was being sexist. Therefore me offending (or not) anoter group has no impact on my point.
For everyone who has said it - WORDS LIKE TWAT, CUNT, COCK, DICK, ARE NOT SEXIST!!!!! WAKE UP!!!
Cunts are not bad things, but if you *are* one, that is an insult!