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Re:Sun's Ruby Contribution: JRuby Beta Now Faster Than Regul... by michaelneale on Monday November 05, 2007 @05:13PM (#76399)
Well its fully open source - heck jruby is not even hosted at sun. They simple employ a couple of contributors. There are aplenty of contributors outside sun as well.
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Re:Sun's Ruby Contribution: JRuby Beta Now Faster Than Regul... by davidw on Monday November 05, 2007 @05:18PM (#76403)
Sure - Tcl of course kept all the contributions that Sun made. However, when the wind from Sun went out of Tcl's sails, it slowed down a lot.
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Re:Sun's Ruby Contribution: JRuby Beta Now Faster Than Regul... by michaelneale on Monday November 05, 2007 @08:00PM (#76445)
true - hopefully that won't happen here - seems to be more outside influence for sure.
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Re:Sun's Ruby Contribution: JRuby Beta Now Faster Than Regul... by plinkplonk on Monday November 05, 2007 @11:05PM (#76478)
At least one of the JRuby committers (Ola Bini) is working for Thoughtworks. So even if Sun dropped JRuby, other companies would probably take up the slack as in this case.

JRuby makes sense in terms of enterprise software/consulting as well and probably doesn't need sun's upport to survive and even thrive (though of course Sun's support is a huge positive).

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