java.sun.com: The Face of Blackdown.org | Linux Today

java.sun.com: The Face of Blackdown.org

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 16, 2000

[ Thanks to ll for this
link. ]

The Blackdown project is a world-wide community of
volunteer developers dedicated to the professional development of
the Java platform for Linux.
This group was instrumental to
the February, 2000 release of the Java 2 Software Development Kit,
Standard Edition (J2SETM), v 1.2.2 for Linux. Here we meet some
current and former core members of the Blackdown team….”

Karl Asha


Steve Byrne


Kars De Jong


Eddie C. Dost


Scott Hutinger


Tod Matola


Michael Sinz


Johan Vos


Other Members

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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