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How about this document http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepape...

It's fixed now, the rule is that one of the team must be a citizen of the country the team represents.

That's great news! Maybe I'll find some use for my N950 soon.

It's not really a singleton if it returns an instance per session instead of a global one.

NetBeans is open source. At least OpenOffice and Hudson have already been forked. Are there any obstacles (name has to be changed of course) for forking this project as well?

Apparently ISO is not one of them, OOXML required zero implementations

XP has the "windows rot" problem. After it has been in use for a couple of months, it slows down significantly and especially booting it takes forever. Some people claim that they …

Good point. And I don't think classpath exception would apply here. I'd be interested to hear if someone has actually seen this source code "in the wild".

AFAIK the code which makes the Swing UI use native OSX (Cocoa) instead of X is Apple proprietary. I wonder whether Apple will now give that to Oracle or release it as Open Source. …

Nope.

If Oracle decides OSX is important enough platform, this might be even a good thing.

In my experience (last 5 years in MegaCorporations) the problem is that the people who are actually hands-on managing the offshoring projects are different from those who make the …

Scala needs the JVM (well, at least it's main implementation does).

There were at least these cases which seem trollish: MS vs. TomTom http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/chewing-the-fat-in-the-m... MS vs. Salesforce http://37signals.com/svn/posts/…

There was a survey about this (among other things): State of Clojure: http://muckandbrass.com/web/display/~cemerick/2010/06/07/Res... Quite a few Ruby and Python people trying Cloj…

You've got a point, but I think final class modifier which prevents extension often hinders Unit Testing and never adds much value.

I have 600 MB stuff there, and it certainly beats my corporate Outlook in speed...

Last time I tried BitBucket it just didn't work over my employer's http proxy. Googled it and it was some unresolved issue back then, lots of people had the same problem.