Dear Community, Get a Clue

Ian Skerrett posted a good article a few days ago, which is recalling how the communication between Oracle and the Community is not working. I strongly agree with 2/3 of it, in fact I voted it. Summing up, the basic points are:Oracle is not good at communicating with the community and it's not doing itOracle is adopting subspicious tactics about the way in which some seats will be renewed at the JCP electionsIn particular, for the latter point, there's an interesting post by Stephen Colebourne. Stephen thinks that there's a risk that Oracle is trying to have a friendly corporate to be nominated at JCP in place of Doug Lea, that stepped out. Stephen might be right or wrong, but I think he's right in raising a yellow flag. In the meantime, Doug explained that he stepped out of the JCP with a critical attitude and he doesn't believe any longer of the openness of the JCP.Frankly, I wouldn't rend my garments if it was true: it's an election and elections are a matter of politics. Each party has got the right to try to get elected allies exercising the power that he has got (actually, Stephen is acting on behalf of the community's interests); the only unfair play would be to cheat the vote count, which is not happening.This makes very sense with the idea that I have about Oracle policy and that I've expressed in my previous post: Oracle is just trying to grab as much as control it can on ...

Date: October, 24 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2010/10/24/dear-community-get-clue

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