From: Ola Bini Date: 2006-11-12T20:54:23+09:00 Subject: Re: McGovern Likes JRuby... M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > jRuby is an investment. Only time will tell whether that investment will > pay off and what the payoffs will be. I don't know enough about the Java > runtime (or the CLR or Parrot, for that matter) to predict success or > failure. I'm personally much more interested in the open source > community efforts. There are many more opportunities for me to create > signal there than there are in two corporations, neither of which pays > me a dime. :) > Hi Ed, From your post I got the distinct impression that JRuby is no longer an open source project: "I'm personally much more interested in the open source community efforts." I just want to chime in and inform you that JRuby is still an Open Source project and very much a community effort. Charles and Tom are hired by Sun, but they are by no means the only ones contributing code to JRuby. Would Ruby stop being a community effort if Matz was employed full time by a company to implement it? (I'm not sure if he is or isn't, the question is hypothetical). What I have seen from Sun's involvement in JRuby this far is only for the benefit of JRuby. More resources and more information to better implement stuff, but no explicit steering towards subjects more interesting for Sun. I'm not an idealist and realize that Sun's involvement of course is because they think they can benefit from the project, but that doesn't make JRuby less Open Source or community driven. Regards -- Ola Bini (http://ola-bini.blogspot.com) JvYAML, RbYAML, JRuby and Jatha contributor System Developer, Karolinska Institutet (http://www.ki.se) OLogix Consulting (http://www.ologix.com) "Yields falsehood when quined" yields falsehood when quined.