Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 24th Nov 2004 20:48 UTC
SUN Microsystems We had the pleasure of having a quick chat with Sun's COO, Jonathan Schwartz, yesterday. We talked about a variety of things, including Java, Solaris, Red Hat and good ol' Unix.
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by Anonymous on Wed 24th Nov 2004 22:17 UTC

"1. Which people would that be, and what are they steering? "

That comes from the way GNU projects are developed. Every project needs a steering committee which is responsible for taking a look at big picture and doing design decisions. this is not something unique to classpath . there is a gcc and gnome committee too for example

team list
http://savannah.gnu.org/project/memberlist.php?group_id=85

redhat contributions are available here

http://sources.redhat.com/java/

fedora core versions have already included various java programs compiled with gcj

FC4 will include even more. check the development tree

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development...