On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>> I'm not too happy with the call to action part, > > Change it as you see fit. This is going to be hard without breaking the tone and style. I think collective authoring of texts is a lot harder than authoring of program code. > I just felt like encouraging more audience participation I agree with that, completely. Went on and re-read the document to see what exactly made me say that I didn't like it. I'd probably simply remove the text starting with "Microsoft are fully" up until "IBM do contribute a lot." completely. The paragraph then would read It is an interesting time for Java. .NET is a serious challenger, and will get better. But the core strength of Java over .NET is its community. It is the community that gave the world leading edge development tools and other core components: Ant, JUnit, XDoclet, hsqldb, Hibernate, Struts, etc. These things weren't created by JCP committees, or built according to the strategic vision of a Fortune 100 company. They were written by Java developers, for Java developers, usually to meet their own tactical goals. I don't want to go ahead and make that change without hearing more opinions, though. Maybe I'm a little too sensitive. 8-) Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
