The Death of IcedTea?

Adam Domurad adomurad at redhat.com
Fri Feb 1 07:44:49 PST 2013


On 02/01/2013 10:39 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:
>> A brief disclaimer that these are my personal thoughts, and not necessarily those of Red Hat.
> By the way, the radical headline of the article contradicts its
> content. What you are proposing is not the "death of" Icedtea but
> narrowing the scope of the project, if I understood your text
> correctly.
>
> A radical headline like "death of" will surely result in tons of
> negative press from the usual suspects in the IT press with an
> anti-Java agenda.
>
> Just my $0.02
> FC

I agree, can't help but feel that the uninitiated with glance at the 
headline, and have a first impression (usually unshakable to some extent 
sadly) that IcedTea was 'dead' in the same way that projects die due to 
lack of developer resources/interest/usefulness.
-Adam



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