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Thursday, March 4
Laying Low
I've been travelling a lot again and not been in the mood to blog much, I have to admit. I wasn't too pleased by Darryl Taft's "quote" from EclipseCon (which despite being in quote marks I didn't say, or not all together like that anyway), and then having that out-of-context non-quote abused by Rod Smith was very irritating. The need to keep quiet on the subject to avoid fanning uninformed flames - after all, any discussion would have to start with two-level rebuttal - has then been depressing. (If at this point you have no idea what I am talking about, stop here!)
To then further see all sorts of other people who weren't there pushing their prejudices while claiming to know what I said, based almost exlusively on Darryl's article, has been very galling. I'm not sure David Berlind has caught the essence of my comments either, but at least his article about IBM's open letter displays sufficient insight to actually work out that you don't start a strategic alliance by writing an open letter to someone you know well enough to call.
For the record, I was answering a question at EclipseCon about "open source Java". I explained that phrase is too vague to be helpful - after all, the Java sources have been available on the web since 1995, and open source implementations of J2EE are under active development by three distinct groups - and that the most useful interpretation, that the questioner actually wants a JRE under an OSD-compatible license, is now within the gift of more than just Sun once J2SE 1.5 is released (under the new JCP 2.5 rules) and that I'd rather he and the audience ask all the parties who could make it happen - which, as I was at an IBM event, included IBM - to consider acting. Hardly an invitation to Rod, of whom I had thought better.
I just wish the press had paid as much attention to the actual keynote (the slides are online) which was warmly received by the audience (well, apart from one guy from NewsForge whose anti-Sun bigotry kept him from listening). The message asked what lessons we can draw from the craft guilds of the middle ages to help us structure new and future open source activities. I'm still researching this, I'd be pleased to get people's informed insights into the subject. On the other subject, I've nothing more to say right now so please don't call.
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