From the Suits Still Control Java dept.:
Members of a JavaOne panel on the JCP, open source and standards have expressed their frustrations with a process they believe puts corporate interests first when it comes to Java. For once, it wasn't just Spring Framework creator and evangelist Rod Johnson calling for change.

Joining him was Sun Microsystems' own, recently recruited, "free and open source software ambassador" Dalibor Topic and representatives from one of the industry's newest Java user group - the Paris JUG - plus one of the largest - Brazil's SouJava. Brazil is a country Sun repeatedly champions when discussing uptake of Java and open source.

Top complaints?

* Onerous membership terms
* A culture favoring closed-door meetings
* Failure to open up essential Java reference implementations and test compatibility kits
* A system that's produced executive committees where just three of the 31 participants are individual members. The others represent big interests - Google, IBM, Motorola, Nokia, Oracle, SAP and Time Warner Cable among others.

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