{"id":49,"date":"2007-04-11T00:45:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T08:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/11\/its-all-about-the-governance\/"},"modified":"2020-04-13T10:29:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:29:34","slug":"its-all-about-the-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/11\/its-all-about-the-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all about the governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, when talking about the prospects for more open RIA technologies, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/07\/why-wpfe-didnt-make-my-cut\/\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;d hope that we could do better than both the W3C or the JCP for Flex\/Flash or OpenLaszlo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After yesterday, I think my reasoning ought to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apache.org\/jcp\/sunopenletter.html\">obvious<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apache.org\/jcp\/sunopenletterfaq.html\">FAQ<\/a> link for those new to the issues. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betaversion.org\/~stefano\/linotype\/news\/102\/\">Stefano and Ben<\/a>, as always, find a satisfying way to put it, and Redmonk&#8217;s Steven O&#8217;Grady has a <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2007\/04\/10\/apache_open_letter\/\">fair minded analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The details of Java and Apache aside, I would call this whole situation a case study in how not to setup the governance for something open.   I have never been a fan of the JCP process because Sun has always had rights that no other participant had.   To Sun&#8217;s credit, the process has become considerably more open since the JCP was created in 1998.   On the other hand, that openness is the result of *years* of hounding by the ASF and other organizations, and now, 9 years later, there are still hiccups.    The world is a different place today in 2007 than it was in 1998, and general understanding of openness and community are much greater than when the JCP was founded.   I would hope than anyone setting out to build a governance model for some piece of technology would look long and hard at the lessons (good and bad) of the JCP experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, when talking about the prospects for more open RIA technologies, I wrote: I&#8217;d hope that we could do better than both the W3C or the JCP for Flex\/Flash or OpenLaszlo. After yesterday, I think my reasoning ought to be obvious. FAQ link for those new to the issues. Stefano and Ben, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,17,3],"tags":[146,67,134,49],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apache","category-community","category-open-source","tag-community","tag-governance","tag-open-source","tag-ria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phUVc-N","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}