The real news
Jun 20th, 2008 by sharps
Of course the real news was that Red Hat (and many others) were even given the opportunity to be part of the evolution of Java.
This was only possible because a bunch of people (like Simon Phipps), inside and outside of Sun had the clarity of vision, passion and determination to actually make it happen; and in doing so increase the opportunity that Java represents for Sun and everyone else.
Don’t underestimate what courage this took. If you’re in any doubt – go tell your CxO that you want to take one of your most valuable applications; open source it and let everyone in the world benefit from your investment and hard work. Best case – you’ll get put on a medical leave of absence.
Now we just need to work on the JCP 
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