There is no ONE community, but many fractions. Just as people will disagree over which IDE, which ORM etc. so will they disagree over the importance of this. I do understand the reactions especially from the most recent part of the community, those who do not have a prior substantial engagement with Sun/Oracle and just want to build great apps for Android. To those this must be down right impossible to understand, as evident by listening to one of the later TWiT podcasts, where btw. they are supposed to get Chris DiBona on later this week.
On Aug 18, 4:53 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/18/10 16:41 , Robert Mark Bram wrote: > > > > > On Aug 17, 11:44 am, Michael Neale <michael.ne...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> I think in summary of the last weeks happenings, we have our > >> answer in how Oracle will treat the community. > > > VJUG (Victorian Java Users Group) will close because of the bad > > feelings brought on by Oracle suing Google. > >http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ajug-victoria/message/1609 > > >> From my own blog, I think that the law suit has brought out a lot > >> of > > ill-will, has no chance of bringing out anything positive, and > > shows nothing shy of contempt for the Java community. In short, I > > really don't understand why they are doing it. > > >http://robertmarkbramprogrammer.blogspot.com/2010/08/long-shadow-over... > > Rob > > :) > > In the past years I've matured the perception that (at least parts of) > the community are highly irrational. But I didn't imagine so much. > > - -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkxr8+AACgkQeDweFqgUGxdFugCfW0pqqFo0munqB/YgNxWruZoN > zpIAoLNIgV/uTqRkXm+lxjzme1TYZg3/ > =/Cgp > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.