Owen Densmore wrote:
> This is sun's current tech leader executive:
>
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan Maybe I read this while in a bad mood, but my first reaction was to
wonder if he is really as clueless as the 21 Oct entry indicates? The
part that struck me is quoted below:
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"Now, I had a parallel set of interactions at this year's JavaOne, at
which a bunch of friends joined us for a discussion on the open sourcing
of Java. Among the luminaries present was Brian Behlendorf, who opened
his statements by asking what I'm sure he felt was a question with a
popular answer, "How many of you work on an open source project?"
I expected to see a flurry of hands, and I'm sure he did, too.
Neither of us saw hands go up.
The community represented at JavaOne either worked within the Java
Community, or were developers with other issues on their minds (like
their day jobs). Interesting."
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What did he expect? Going to JavaOne is an expense beyond the
typical open-source developer. Commercial developers get their expenses
paid. Duh.
Then Jonathan goes on to observe "there is no single definition of
'user' that encompasses the diversity of the constituencies we serve"
which a linked blog (
http://tbray.org/ongoing) describes as "profound".
Maybe I'm old and cynical, but that type of observation seems typical
of someone just entering the workforce. Of course a company like Sun
and even a specific product like Java has a diverse user base. This
isn't profound - it shows a keen grasp of the obvious.
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