Oracle's Java Policies Are Destroying the Community

Posted by Unknown on Thursday August 4, 2011 @03:00AM from the shares-in-haskell-inc-up-ten-points dept.

snydeq writes "Neil McAllister sees Oracle's buggy Java SE 7 release as only the latest misstep in a mounting litany of bad behavior. 'Who was the first to alert the Java community? The Apache Foundation. Oh, the irony. This is the same Apache Foundation that resigned from the Java Community Process executive committee in protest after Oracle repeatedly refused to give it access to the Java Technology Compatibility Kit,' McAllister writes. 'It seems as if Oracle would like nothing better than to stomp Apache and its open source Java efforts clean out of existence.'"

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Re:Watch me falling asleep over Javatalk by pavon · 2011-08-04 03:30 · Score: 4, Informative

And LibreOffice is working on reimplementing many of those features without Java.
Re:Also in the news by shugah · 2011-08-04 04:41 · Score: 4, Informative

MySQL already has several forks, but MariaDB, developed by Monty Widenius is the closest to a drop in replacement.

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