Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee

Microsoft has a long history of not playing nice. They would love to see major open source projects become depended on mono. They will use the embrace and extend thing by adding features that are not covered by their false promises. They may not cause open source projects to fail entirely. They may make them crash unexpectedly or run slow. At the least, they will take steps to make open source projects look unprofessional. People are more often judged by what they do, not what they say. Microsoft promises are so much wind.

Why should the world commit itself to the ideas of one company? It is long past time that open source established its own solution independent of those that are proprietary, overly complex, and legally vague. Now may be the perfect time. Java and dot-net were conceived before cloud computing and are not optimised for that environment. The open-source community can take the initiative by developing a cloud-centric language with a supporting multi-hosted virtual machine. The machine could run on one computer but it could also transparently scale upwards by adding more networked computers to the same runtime. It would be an answer for everything that is Java or dot-net are now and a path to the future that neither Java nor dot-net have reached. Both Google and Apache have reasons to support such an initiative.