On 5 December 2010 01:14, Liam Knox <liamjk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sour grapes. Simple as that. > > One blog post you want to be a member of the JCP and are the most pro Java > person in the world. You then don't get in. The next post everything is a > sham. > > If you do not see any hint of sour grapes in that you must be completely > blind.
/facepalm ... looking forward to more threads where people "attack the argument, not the arguer" as Neil suggested On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Neil Bartlett <njbartl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I find this thread very depressing. >> >> Originally this was about Bob Lee's blog post in which he explained >> why he declined an invitation to serve on the expert group for the >> Java SE 7 and 8 JSRs. At some point somebody got confused and thought >> it was about Bob's failure to get elected to the JCP Executive >> Committee. And then it degenerated into ad hominem attacks on Bob. >> >> As it happens I'm not a big Bob Lee fan -- he's said some remarkably >> ignorant things about OSGi for example -- but really, what has that or >> his contribution to Guice and Guava got to do with anything?? Does >> anybody have anything to say in response to the argument he lays out >> in his blog post? I for one agree with what he says, the JCP as it >> currently exists is a sham. >> >> Remember: attack the argument, not the arguer. >> >> Neil >> >> On Dec 3, 6:35 am, Liam Knox <liamjk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > http://blog.crazybob.org/2010/10/long-live-java.html >> > >> > So what the hell is this all about then? >> > >> > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > > On Dec 2, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Liam Knox wrote: >> > >> > > > So there was no vote? >> > >> > > On Bob, No there was no vote. How many times do you have to be told >> for >> > > that to sink in? >> > >> > -- Cheers, Stuart -- 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.
