Monday November 05, 2007 Red Hat Joins OpenJDK
I was very pleased just now to see that Red Hat has announced they are joining the OpenJDK community to work on and use the Java implementation being developed over there. They have signed the contributor agreement as well as the OpenJDK TCK license. I hope we'll see IcedTea become an OpenJDK project as a result of this - the Classpath folk have been doing an awesome job.
Creating an environment with licensing, code and governance acceptable to groups like Red Hat was one of the primary motivations of our choices around OpenJDK, so this is fantastic news all round, and an interesting counterpoint to the approach others have taken in other projects.
Update: Interesting comments from Mark Reinhold, positivity from Mark Wielaard, congratulations from Dalibor, early coverage on JavaLobby. And later still: NetworkWorld, CMP, eWeek (quoting this blog), WRAL, CNet and TechTarget (also quoting this blog, almost) and even later: InternetNews, which includes interviews with me and Shaun Connolly of Red Hat.
Posted by webmink
( Nov 05 2007, 07:07:27 AM PST )
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links for 2007-11-05
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Tough love
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I can see the point from both sides of the argument. Truth is, where people are involved, there will always be different opinions. The question is not how to stop that but how to move on positively afterwards.
Posted by webmink
( Nov 05 2007, 12:22:37 AM PST )
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