First, some housekeeping:
1000th Java.net project:
jBob pointed out that the 1000th java.net project was approved a few days ago. It is part of the linux.java.net project community, and can be found here:
https://javafirmware.dev.java.net/
jBob's log about it can be found here: http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/1450
Regarding OSCON:
We should be running a Linux on Java BOF there, but the...
In a recent article, Sun President Jonathan Schwartz stated that he saw Red Hat as being a proprietary company, more so than Sun. Specifically: "Availability of source code isn't what qualifies you as 'not proprietary'-Sun's definition of proprietary is behavior which defeats the customer's ability to compete vendors against one another, or choose from among many 'compatible' implementations...
