Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 24th Nov 2004 20:48 UTC
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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I understand your points, but GNU Classpath is really, really not maintained by Red Hat.
Neither Mark Wielaard, nor C. Brian Jones, who are listed as project admins on the Savannah page, work for Red Hat. Whatever influence Red Hat excercises on GNU Classpath as a whole, it does so on the merit of their contributions, just like every other contributor.
Obviously, through the quality and amount of their contributions, some contributors are able to shape the direction in which a project is going stronger than others. Contrary to some other non-free java projects, here the development happens in the open, and is open for anyone to participate in, though. And that's what's happening, so that no single contributor has control over another, as you can see in the team page on savannah. It's not any more Red Hat controlled than the Linux kernel, or OpenOffice.org[1].
GNU Classpath is not a part of the GNU compiler collection project, so it's not governed by the gcc steering committee.
cheers,
dalibor topic
[1] Both projects Red Hat contributes to, but does not maintain.