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I always thought that Cameron and Reza didn't present a very balanced view. Which is OK if you're hired for marketing as long as you don't claim you're not a co
by needusername 11y ago
I always thought that Cameron and Reza didn't present a very balanced view. Which is OK if you're hired for marketing as long as you don't claim you're not a corporate drone.
Two examples:
Reza is a famous spring hater and much of his writing can be summarised as "Java EE rocks, Spring sucks". Which is fine if you're hired to sell Java EE. Which is fine, just don't claim otherwise.
Cameron's view on TCK licensing was also very one sided and uncompromising. In every JCP meeting the topic of TCK licensing pops up. Everybody except Oracle agrees on the subject. Everybody has the same position Oracle had before the Sun acquisition.
I was at a JCP meeting when the whole panel (all JCP members) agreed on TCK licensing and Cameron from the audience simply said "no". Then he said something like "if you open source a TCK that makes the TCK worthless because anybody can change anything". Totally ignoring the fact that the best TCK out there (the CDI TCK) is open source. Even if that was an issue there would be fixes for this like trade marking the TCK like Mozilla does with Firefox.
Again if you're hired to wield the power of the TCK against Apache Harmony for whatever political reason that's fine. Just don't claim you're not a corporate drone.