CFV: Project sponsorship: Mac OS X Port

[Dalibor Topic]

On 12/1/10 8:06 PM, Tom Marble wrote:
> Vote: yes

Thank you for your vote, Tom, and for the kind words.

This concludes the vote for the Porters group.

cheers,
dalibor topic

> 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



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