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"f you look at the Classpath team table, you'll see that ~10 out of ~60 people are from Red Hat. Hardly a steering majority there. "

Maybe I didnt make myself clear but the number of people DO NOT determine steering committee. the steering committee is invidually elected by project members of which Redhat does have a good share. gcj as part of the gcc project is steered by the gcc steering committee. look at the number of redhat people vs others in there

"Gcj'ed jars are coming into other distributions beside FC4. With gcj 4.0 upcoming, and binary compatibility ABI for gcj-ed libraries, all those cumbersome jars turn into nice shared objects, that are much nicer to handle from a packaging perspective. JPackage is doing some nice work in this area to make packages that ship both bytecode for gcj-bc-abi unaware runtimes, and precompiled shared libraries for gcj.
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if you look at the code which made this possible , the primary source is definitely redhat here

"I'd be very interested to hear your hypothesis on how Red Hat is steering GNU Classpath development in such a way, that people are nevertheless happily writing free runtimes for the Amiga platform using it. Or for Mono, to put up a higher bar
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redhat is not the only company with a stake in gcc. ibm and others too are obviously part of the commitee. its a open list. go see here. its not something secret or hypothetical. I dont understand your point that just because mono uses classpath that redhat cannot have control over the project. its not how things work.

mono has gtk# bindings doesnt mean gtk cant be maintained by redhat