LWN: Kevin Hendricks resigns from the Blackdown team | Linux Today

LWN: Kevin Hendricks resigns from the Blackdown team

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 9, 1999

“I have resigned from the Java-Linux porting effort. In my “real
life”, I am a tenured business school prof. The only reasons I was
involved in the JDK project at all were to learn something, to give
back to Linux community something for all of the benefit I have
received, and for fun.”

“Well it just stopped being fun and there are other ways to give
back to the community so on other projects.”

“The funny thing is I am happy Sun is officially supporting
Linux, I am unhappy about how they went about doing that.”

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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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