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Some of my best friends are programmers

...But primate programmers evidently don't do open source...as we can see from this informative FAQ...

"...What are the issues regarding open source programming?

Hominids will not share source code and can be very territorial when programming. For this reason we do not recommend Primate Programming for open source projects..."

Somebody has too much time on their hands...but its a pretty cute joke

Ever-lovin' Harmony

There's been lots of emailing and/or calling me about Harmony since the weekend. I'm so pleased to finally see public discussions begining about Harmony (and of course to see Graham Hamilton take such an enlightened viewpoint on it). Cudos to Geir Magnusson, Jr., Mark Wielaard, Dalibor Topic and everyone else who worked hard to build bridges and to get the Incubator proposal together. If Harmony succeeds in uniting the various Open Java tribes to create a Sun-blessed, "Open J2SE", it will be wonderful indeed.

I'm listed on the proposal as a "supporter" and one of the big questions I've gotten is whether I'm a supporter on behalf of my new employer Intel, or not. I do work for Intel, but I've been a supporter of compatible open source Java for much longer than that. Intel is not commenting yet about Harmony, since it is still just a proposal...so in fact (and for the record) I can't possibly be speaking for Intel on this topic.

The work of an open source advocate in a big company was ever thus.