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Will Oracle alienate the Java community next?

[ Thanks to Amy Bennett for this link. ]

“Given Oracle’s pratfalls and fumbles with some of the
open source projects they inherited from Sun (OpenSolaris, Hudson,
and now OpenOffice.org), doesn’t anyone wonder how long it’s going
to take for them to royally screw up the crown jewel of the Sun
acquisition, Java?

“Boy, I sure do.

“Given that Java is perhaps the most important open source
project Oracle acquired when it bought Sun (and I would venture the
biggest reason Sun was bought in the first place), Oracle has to be
very careful how it handles the open source Java community. So far?
Not doing such a good job.”


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