Here's the awesome YouTube version of that textual explication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv5Q39MuTvk
:-) Gj On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 10:58 PM James Gosling <[email protected]> wrote: > Here’s a little piece of relevant Sun history you may not know: when I was > trying to get Sun to buy NetBeans, the > powers-that-be didn’t like it because it wasn’t a “big play”. They wanted > to buy a big tool company for a lot > of money. They settled on Forté software, which was completely idiotic > (they did developer tools for IBM > mainframes), but they were expensive (>1$B). I wouldn’t shut up about how > idiotic this was, especially > given that NetBeans was a much better company with a much better product. > I was effectively asked > “If we buy both, will you shut up?”. I said OK, Forté crashed and burned, > NetBeans sailed on. > > You should have charged Sun more. :-) > > > On Feb 6, 2020, at 1:45 PM, Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > We’re implicitly keeping the Sun flag flying. :-) > > > > Gj > > > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 22:27, James Gosling <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> That was a really nice talk! Thanks for doing it! > >> > >>>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 10:54 PM Geertjan Wielenga < > [email protected]> > >>>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> Hi all, > >>>>> > >>>>> Several of us on the mailing list were at FOSDEM in Brussel yesterday > >>>>> (Neil, Jan Lahoda, Martin Entlicher, Patrik Karlstrom) and it was a > >>>> pretty > >>>>> good event -- I think we should treat FOSDEM as a place where we can > >> get > >>>>> together every year and share new insights etc around NetBeans. > >>>>> > >>>>> One of the talks was by me, specifically about the state and > direction > >> of > >>>>> NetBeans, it takes about 20 minutes, take a look here: > >>>>> > >>>>> > https://mirror.cyberbits.eu/fosdem/2020/UD2.119/fromoracleapache.webm > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks, > >>>>> > >>>>> Gj > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > >> For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
