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Sun Works With Apache Software Foundation
The Jakarta group had raised some concerns over the proposed Java Specification Participation Agreement. After some hemming and hawing, it appears that the Java Community Process chair (Sun) has agreed with the ASF's concerns - but IANAL ? . If you have more info, paste it below.
In treating this subject Plekhanov contrived completely to ignore the most urgent, burning, and politically most essential issue in the struggle against anarchism, viz., the relation of the revolution to the state, and the question of the state in general! Two sections of his pamphlet stand out: one of them is historical and literary, and contains valuable material on the history of the ideas of Stirner, Proudhon and others; the other is philistine, and contains a clumsy dissertation on the theme that an anarchist cannot be distinguished from a bandit.
A most amusing combination of subjects and most characteristic of Plekhanov's whole activity on the eve of the revolution and during the revolutionary period in Russia. Indeed, in the years 1905 to 1917, Plekhanov revealed himself as a semi-doctrinaire and semi-philistine who, in politics, trailed in the wake of the bourgeoisie.
We have seen how, in their controversy with the anarchists, Marx and Engels with the utmost thoroughness explained their views on the relation of revolution to the state. In 1891, in his foreword to Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program, Engels wrote that "we"--that is, Engels and Marx--"were at that time, hardly two years after the Hague Congress of the (First) International, engaged in the most violent struggle against Bakunin and his anarchists."
The anarchists had tried to claim the Paris Commune as their "own," so to say, as a corroboration of their doctrine; and they utterly failed to understand its lessons and Marx's analysis of these lessons. Anarchism has failed to give anything even approximating a true solution of the concrete political problems, viz., must the old state machine be smashed? And what should be put in its place?
But to speak of "Anarchism and Socialism" while completely evading the question of the state, and failing to take note of the whole development of Marxism before and after the Commune, meant inevitably slipping into opportunism. For what opportunism needs most of all is that the two questions just mentioned should not be raised at all. That in itself is a victory for opportunism.
This endangers their java environment partnership with Apple.
I guess their trousers must fit properly now. That means they get on with humming.
Until Sun does the StarOffice 6.x trick and stops distributing free versions.
The owls are not what they seem
Ah, the fine art of humor through absurdity.
Open office is still open, and better than SO6 for the same reasons mozilla is better'n netscape 6.
And for the same reason netbeans is better'b forte for java, although I hear the Enterprise stuff in FFJ is nice.
Open Source Identity Management: FreeIPA.org
seems that the little reference has been slashdotted... that is a sign that 'IANAL' is one of those 1337 d00dz buzz words that should not be used so damn much unless it is explained in the text every so often
I mostly agree with your other post except that the JCP really does help... I mean, read the article all these posts are "about". Apache didn't like the direction Java was going, made a stink, and Sun made atleast some attempt to help ease the concerns. Try to do that with .Net and Micro$oft... It's not ideal, but as you said, it's good technology.