>>>>> "Alejandro" == Alejandro Imass <a...@p2ee.org> writes:
Alejandro> Yes, but not before creating a big mess, stagnating Alejandro> development and forcing the core team out of Oracle to create Alejandro> LO and I guess [pure speculation] that in the end it Alejandro> backfired and Larry (aka "we'll simply take it") was left Alejandro> with no resources to maintain it and had no choice but to let Alejandro> it go, maybe in an attempt to save face, who knows. Repeat story with Hudson (Jenkins) and MySQL (MariaDB) and OpenSolaris (Illumos). The only good thing they seem *not* to have screwed with is VirtualBox. Maybe they haven't discovered they own it yet. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <mer...@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"