The Future of IcedTea [Was Re: The Death of IcedTea?]

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> 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
> 

Yeah, the question mark was there for a reason, but, given we also had comments about this when I proposed it for FOSDEM, it seems it's too subtle.

Ok, ok, I changed it :P
-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
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