Re: [osol-discuss] Gosling resigns from Oracle

2010-04-13 Thread Hugh McIntyre
Svein Skogen wrote: On 12.04.2010 00:16, Calum Benson wrote: On 11/04/2010 00:35, Chris Pickett wrote: Rumor is that Gosling was escorted out of his office and set into a cab to leave the campus immediately and not come back ever again. I have not the slightest idea whether that's true, but t

Re: [osol-discuss] Gosling resigns from Oracle

2010-04-13 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
This was predicted a year ago here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/21/oracle_sun_open_source/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Gosling resigns from Oracle

2010-04-12 Thread Uros Nedic
themselves into that market? Uros NedicBelgrade, Serbia > Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:51:01 -0700 > From: bloosk...@netscape.net > To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Gosling resigns from Oracle > > Will this guy be setting up shop somewhere e

Re: [osol-discuss] Gosling resigns from Oracle

2010-04-12 Thread Peter Jones
Will this guy be setting up shop somewhere else? Seems like an ideal candidate to start a new not for profit opensource company? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Gosling resigns from Oracle

2010-04-12 Thread Calum Benson
On 12/04/2010 12:48, Michael Kerpan wrote: They could probably do well in an environment like Google, which seems to have perfected the seemingly impossible art of making money (in large quantities) while giving away innovative products and services for free and not being evil, but I suspect a p

Re: [osol-discuss] Gosling resigns from Oracle

2010-04-12 Thread Michael Kerpan
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Jussi Nieminen wrote: > It is really sad to see and witness what is happening to Sun. I understand it > very well when these former Sun employees are resigning one after another. > Sun under Oracle is not the Sun we know. It doesn't exist any more. It's > gone.

Re: [osol-discuss] Gosling resigns from Oracle

2010-04-12 Thread Jussi Nieminen
It is really sad to see and witness what is happening to Sun. I understand it very well when these former Sun employees are resigning one after another. Sun under Oracle is not the Sun we know. It doesn't exist any more. It's gone. Nothing will ever be the way it was before Oracle bought Sun. I

Re: [osol-discuss] Gosling resigns from Oracle

2010-04-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Calum Benson wrote: > On 11/04/2010 00:35, Chris Pickett wrote: > > > Rumor is that Gosling was escorted out of his office and set > > into a cab to leave the campus immediately and not come back ever > > again. > > I have not the slightest idea whether that's true, but to be honest it's > not a

Re: [osol-discuss] Gosling resigns from Oracle

2010-04-11 Thread Svein Skogen
On 12.04.2010 00:16, Calum Benson wrote: > On 11/04/2010 00:35, Chris Pickett wrote: > >> Rumor is that Gosling was escorted out of his office and set >> into a cab to leave the campus immediately and not come back ever >> again. > > I have not the slightest idea whether that's true, but to be ho

Re: [osol-discuss] Gosling resigns from Oracle

2010-04-11 Thread Calum Benson
On 11/04/2010 00:35, Chris Pickett wrote: Rumor is that Gosling was escorted out of his office and set into a cab to leave the campus immediately and not come back ever again. I have not the slightest idea whether that's true, but to be honest it's not all that uncommon in his line of work, e

Re: [osol-discuss] Gosling resigns from Oracle

2010-04-11 Thread Martin Bochnig
It is sad. A shock!!! Good night! :( mab On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Chris Pickett wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Michael Lee wrote: >> Gosling resigns from Oracle. http://www.taranfx.com/father-of-java-resigns. >> >> I would have thought that Oracle would have tried t

Re: [osol-discuss] Gosling resigns from Oracle

2010-04-10 Thread Chris Pickett
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Michael Lee wrote: > Gosling resigns from Oracle. http://www.taranfx.com/father-of-java-resigns. > > I would have thought that Oracle would have tried to keep him on board the > "good yacht" Oracle. That's not surprising. Gosling was for research and fair access

[osol-discuss] Gosling resigns from Oracle

2010-04-10 Thread Michael Lee
Gosling resigns from Oracle. http://www.taranfx.com/father-of-java-resigns. I would have thought that Oracle would have tried to keep him on board the "good yacht" Oracle. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list