CFV: Project sponsorship: Mac OS X Port

[Tom Marble]

Vote: yes

I am very pleased by Apple's commitment to open source Java through
participation in OpenJDK [0].

There was clearly broad concern about the "deprecation" message
from many developers on the Mac OS X platform [1] [2] [3].

This project sponsorship continues the themes of expanding
upon Sun's original goal of "run anywhere" universality
and of enabling the innovation made possible by Free Software [4] [5].

Today we have a wide range of operating systems (e.g. GNU/Linux, Mac OS X,
Solaris, BSD, Windows, Haiku OS) and chip architectures (e.g. i586, x86_64,
sparc, arm, powerpc, mips) supported or in development.

A big "Thanks!" to Apple and welcome to the community!

--Tom

[0] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/11/12openjdk.html
[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20020338-260.html
[2] http://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/2010/11/oracle_and_apple_announce_openjdk_project_for_osx.html
[3] http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/macjdk
[4] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/porters-dev/2007-December/000006.html
[5] http://web.archive.org/web/20080822064017/www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/faq.jsp#e