Re: The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Den 15/12/10 13.24, Dean, Robert skrev:
> That is incorrect itself.
>
> The difference between what Oracle is doing and what Sun did is that Oracle actually went through with the charade of a JSR for Java 7.  Sun avoided it due to the Apache situation.
That is not my understanding.  It has been my understanding that the 
OpenJDK-transition delayed Java 7 so much that it got into the "now sell 
Sun" legal mess.
> What Oracle has done doesn't make Java more or less commercial.  It exposes the fact that the JCP is a façade.
JCP made sense in the Sun world.  It doesn't in the Oracle world.


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> Saying anything but that Oracle has taken Java back as their own commercial product to the largest possible extend, would be incorrect.