Hi all I meant to respond to all the e-mail's this topic has raised over the weekend. But life outside of software got in the way... I will work through them...
Martin, Kudos to you and Ben for your tireless efforts in running the group and keeping it afloat. I've been a committee member (and once president) of a...
VJUGgers Personally, I feel that if someone is going to cry over a single vendor's response to another vendor - neither of them exclusively a Java-only vendor,...
i in part echo grahame's remarks here. i understand and support Martin et al's decision. it felt like quite the kick in the guts when oracle took that recent...
Hi Martin Firstly, I'd like to thank you for your work - it's often a thankless task. I agree with you that this is a very serious problem. For me, the biggest...
Hi Martin/Ben, Firstly, thank you for the time and energy you've spent on VJUG, I appreciate your efforts. I have enjoyed the meetings/talks you have organised...
I do sincerely want to thank Martin and Ben for great work and effort they have done with VJUG!! I did not mean to winge or complain or anything in any way...
Hi Martin, Sounds a little reactive. Oracle is not suing Google over "Java". The issue is about methods used in modern VMs - which just happen to relate to ...
Hi Oleg When Oracle formally took control of Sun we unexpectedly found ourselves without a regular venue. We spent an inordinate amount of time trying to find...
Hi Russell The simple truth is that the legal squabbles have affected my belief in the future of Java, and so my desire to perform activities on behalf of this...
Like all user groups, VJUG exists to serve its members. I fail to see how legal squabbles between foreign vendors affects VJUG's mission. If VJUG meets the...
Hi Martin, Ben, On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Martin Paulo <martin.paulo@...> ... shadow over Java's future, potentially affecting all of us who use...
ok!, IMHO this seems like a wrong reason for closing a technical group... the real reason should be that there is actually nott much activity going in and VJUg...
Hi All Ben and I feel that Oracle choosing to sue Google has cast a very long shadow over Java's future, potentially affecting all of us who use Java in our...
New Zealand does a lot of "odd", non-conformist things... they ban all the nuclear stuff, they don't support military campaigns, etc I think because they are...
+1 Sorry for top-posting, general comments only. I sent this out to a few friends and colleagues - while I am ambivalent about how effective it is, I think...
+1 I signed... but I am very skeptical regarding the success of this initiative... as, in my observations, Australia has taken it upon itself to copycat U.S....
Hi all I thought the following might be of interest: In 2010, the Open Source Developers' Conference (OSDC) is back in Melbourne! Running Wednesday 24th -...
Hi all A petition has been launched to abolish software patents in Australia. It can be found at: http://apps.softwarefreedom.com.au/patents/ I don't believe...
I see... my biggest complaint is that they charge disproportionally more for a "bundle" then for a single format (e.g., PDF) for essentially the same (and DRM...
Yea, I was a bit excited too, until I seen the prices... IMHO, a rip off, especially for a bundle, but even a single (PDF) is more expensive than similar...
Hi all This might also be of interest to people on this mailing list? Martin ... From: Jason (Plutext) <jharrop@...> Date: 16 July 2010 12:26 Subject:...
Hi all I thought this might be of interest to some of you? Martin ... Date: 22 July 2010 09:00 Subject: O'Reilly UG News: Ebook Special: Buy 1, Get 1 Free -...
Hi all This month the Scala user group's meeting is aimed at people new to Scala. The details are below: Martin ... From: Ben Hutchison Date: 19 July 2010...
Hi all At last nights YOW event, the organisers stated that there would be group discounts available for the conference in December. If any of you are...
The Java Native Interface (JNI) enables the integration of code written in the Java programming language with code written in other languages such as C and...
