On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 06:56 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Mark Wielaard <[email protected]> wrote: > > So, how do you propose this so called "governing board" goes about > > convincing people like Andrew to not throw up their hands in disgust at > > ignoring the people doing actual community work and trying very hard not > > to just have to give up on OpenJDK and fork away? This board is largely > > made up of people which are not even actual OpenJDK hackers. > > I know very little things, Mark. I just have a few opinions, one of > them is that the companies that have put more man hours into a project > (or even, created them!) and pays for most of its developers should > have a bigger say in the direction a given FOSS project, than a few > vocal chronic complainers that apparently would only be happy if such > companies "give up" all control of the project, all in the name of > "community" of course.
Nobody I know is saying that. Of course the more you contribute, the more say you have in a project. All I see is people pointing out that such influence should be earned, not dictated by creating special rights for certain companies. > The FSF has repeatedly refused to take down RMS´ anti-java rant "the > java trap" article even while it has been renedered obsolete years > ago, the moment Sun Microsystems decided to release Java SE as Free > Software. As far as I know the FSF celebrated that release: http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-welcomes-gpl-java.html And explained the Java Trap is no more by adding a giant "Headnote" to their old article explaining that "the Java language as such is no longer a trap": http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html > But hey, that´s me and my probably wrong, baseless and biased > opinions, I´m sure. Cheers, Mark
