Sure, we (in the royal sense) have access to the super expensive TCK’s from Sun, but I (active* underhanded funder) think that I (gluecode honourable employee) am behaving in a sensible and fair manner. I (ASF hat wearer) for one appreciate Sun’s open source stance, even though I (gluecode) have to pay a lot of money for TCK access, and I (gluecode) hire a lot of my (quick ASF hat switcharoo) Geronimo friends just as they (geronimo) hired me for work for them (gluecode)

Harmony is an incubating Apache project run by Apache rules. Individuals matter in Apache projects. and all individuals are equal. Corporations can only make direct contributions via public code donations, and so far, we’ve seen nothing from IBM.

I knew that there would be endless conspiracy theories around this one, but the acquisition of my company (which has nothing to do with J2SE) and the work that went into planning Harmony were and continue to be independent. I participate in Harmony as a volunteer, just like I did before. I’ll be the first to admit that I would love to get paid to do it, but I don’t.

-geir

One recalls the Who: “Meet the new boss… same as the old boss.”

I think Sun’s stewardship of Java hasn’t been so bad that I want to trade Sun for IBM.