Signed beans/plugins for Servoy Stuff
Published by admin on Friday, April 23, 2010 - 03:34:30 - Filed under General, News, Announcements, Development
Following the latest Java 6 update 19 fiasco, followed a few days later by another buggy release 20, which was forced on our throat thanks to Oracle total lack of care for us developers (without any beta like it was always the case when Sun was… Sun), you will find from now on that every plugins/beans available for download on the Servoy Stuff site will be signed by “Patrick Talbot Open Source Developer”.
This certificate has been provided thanks to the generous offer of Certum CA, a Certificate Authority recognized by Sun in the JVM (works on Mac OS X too, don’t worry!). They offer FREE one year (renewable) certificate for Open Source developers and I am the proof that it’s for real, and this is an initiative that must be applauded these days where companies like Oracle clearly don’t care a bit about us developers, except for our money, I mean.
So once they have installed this certificate (which will be the case when they accept the first time to run Servoy with one of the plugin/bean used in your solution), your clients will never hear about me again, which is fine because I’m shy, really ;-)
On another note, I have found this article on the JavaLobby DZone site which I’m sure you will enjoy as much as I have (the author you know already ;-)
I think we should all support the author who is expressing here some reasonable concern and offering reasonable solutions. The more we all make noise about it, the more Oracle might have its ears scratching and who knows… they might be listening.
I know another company who recently showed that they were ;-)
