Re:And Again (Score 1)

You made the assertion that Sun Specific APIs do not exist, saying 'all I can say is, "They're in the fine manual."', I've shown that you are wrong: unspecified (com.)sun.* packages exist and they were unfortunately used in `1.0.x sources. Instead of raising a stink, people talked about it on the mailing list, filed bug reports, and things got fixed for 2.0.x. That's a good thing, and shows that developers are able to work together quite well.

In my opinion, to go with the comic theme from your handle, you're painting Sun as some rather loaded, Hulk like character, that's every moment about to explode and go on a rampage in too tight shorts in an outburst of barely controlled rage.

My experience is quite to the contrary. In this age of participation, as Schwartz calls it, Sun appears to be interested in positioning itself in the center of a social hub for creation of larger works, rather then posing as a potentially threatening bully outside the playfield.

There is, simply put, no money to be made in squashing and threatening open source projects. It'd be an irrational act, and Sun is made up of pretty rational people, afaik. They seem to know what they are doing.

cheers, dalibor topic