4 ms·

They reused the URL from their closing announcement (old discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1095424 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109542

• hga 17y ago
  Airbrushing their previously stated decision to terminate with extreme prejudice the domain Kenai.com and all non-Sun projects hosted on it? (Which got a lot of people upset if for no other reason than that Kenai had Netbeans support you couldn't find elsewhere; read the earlier comments, which they didn't touch). They told everyone they had to evacuate by a date certain (end of March as I recall), that the tools to do so were incomplete but that they were working on them, etc. etc. Their old position was unequivocal: if you don't work for Sun evacuate. And from the Sun Maxine project (a metacircular JVM) I know this was also going to be disruptive for internal Sun project. I guess they got so much push back they're now doing something semi-smart (changing the terrible brand of kenai.com (what does that mean???) to java.net). I can live with that, I don't expect the merger to be entirely smooth, but if they can reverse stupid initial decisions (however they decide to save face), it's a very good sign.