February 01, 2011
Mark Wielaard: New GPG key.
Finally created a new GPG key using gnupg. The old one was a DSA/1024 bits one and 8 years old. The new one is a RSA/2048 bits one. I will use the new one in the future to sign any release tarballs I might create. pub 2048R/57816A6A 2011-01-29 Key f...
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February 01, 2011
Andrew Hughes: [SECURITY] IcedTea6 1.7.8, 1.8.5, 1.9.5 Released!.
We are pleased to announce a new set of security releases, IcedTea6 1.7.8, IcedTea6 1.8.5 and IcedTea6 1.9.5.
This update contains the following security updates:
The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK6 u...
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Polls on Java's Future: Free? Closed? Oracle? JCP? IBM? OpenJDK?
The future of Java is the just-ended java.net poll and our new poll. The just-ended poll was based on Markus Eisele's September 30 blog post, Java SE 7, 8, 9 - The Road Ahead. The poll ran for two weeks; 454 votes were cast, with the following results:
Free Java? Closed Java? Evolving JCP? What's the Most Likely Path?
24% (108 votes) - Free Java! (Forget the JCP, just create a free public open source Java repository)
49% (224 votes) - Free the JCP! (Open the jcp and make it independent from Oracle)
7% (34 votes) - Java as a product (within Oracle - simple product licensing for 3rd parties. No jcp.)
8% (37 votes) - Anything in between or mixing the above
2% (11 votes) - Other
9% (40 votes) - I don't know
This is an unusually clear result for java.net polls. Setting aside the "I don't know" responses, a majority of the voters favor freeing the JCP. Still, a substantial group prefer the "Free Java" option, where the language becomes a free, public, open source project.
Four comments were posted. magnum didn't consider it a good idea for a major programming language not to have a corporate leader, and also approves of the JCP in its present relationship with Oracle:
There is much more openness and discussion about Java future than in all other major (evolving) languages, so JCP, though not perfect, is better than what we have in other languages.
An anonymous commenter disagreed:
I vote for JCP ...
Date: October, 18 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2010/10/18/polls-javas-future-free-closed-oracle-jcp-ibm-openjdk
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