Dalibor Topic wrote: >On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:20:02AM -0800, Per Bothner wrote: > > >>Dalibor Topic wrote: >> >> >>>The only way GNU Classpath would be acceptable for Apache Harmony, afaict >>>from >>>our dicussions in the past year, would be if the FSF contributed it to the >>>ASF, >>>and had the ASF manage the project, under the Apache license. Anything >>>else is >>>non-option for ASF, for a variety of reasons. >>> >>> >>Harmony appears to be basically an attempt at a hostile takeover of the >>Free Java movement. They're all in favor of cooperation - as long as >>it is 100% on their terms. Complete surrender is all they will accept. >> >>I hope I'm wrong, but nothing I've heard suggests otherwise. >> >> > >I am sorry if I gave that impression, since that's not the way I >experienced it. My impression was that the ASF simply has certain ways >to do things, and does not want to change those, since their way >basically works fine for them, and they don't think GNU Classpath is >worth changing their ways of doing things, as apparently, that's all >very tedious and so on. > >I wouldn't want to imply malice, where buerocratic inertia is a >sufficient explanation. > > > This is all really sad. Guess the only thing to do is ignore Harmony and and rub it in that they had to get donations to get anywhere. Ha! ;) Brian
