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Oracle's Java Policies Are Destroying the Community

Posted by Unknown on 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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  1. Round 1. Fight. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We have the last Java 7 preview (GPL).

    Fork the darn thing and see who lives.

  2. Also in the news by Chrisq · · Score: 4, Funny

    It seems as if Oracle would like nothing better than to stomp Apache and its open source Java efforts clean out of existence.

    Also in the news. It seems that water makes things wet.

    1. Re:Also in the news by shugah · · 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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      If you aren't part of the solution, then there is good money to be made prolonging the problem
  3. This isn't a news article. by Short+Circuit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Really, who didn't see this coming?

    This isn't a news article. This is an article about two previous news articles. There's nothing to see coming. Submitted by the author of an article about the two previous stories. Slow news day, I hope; this is just a group-think trajectory thing.

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  4. Re:Watch me falling asleep over Javatalk by pavon · · Score: 4, Informative

    And LibreOffice is working on reimplementing many of those features without Java.

  5. Re:Java, truley an American icon by Applekid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    OP didn't claim it was dead. It sounded to me like he *wanted* it dead. Add me to that list please.

    Wait, this is America, and people spent money in College learning it. Perhaps the government should subsidy the language and offer incentives to companies that hire these people...

    - Dan.

    My sarcasm detector needs calibration, but, in the meantime, those who spent money in college learning a language and not the concepts behind the language got ripped off. Give fish vs teach fishing and all that jazz.

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    More Twoson than Cupertino