Java OS is here: good news, weak perspectives
JNode is a ghost that should scares the shit out of big corporations, and this ideea scares the shit out of devs. The future is like no hardware donations, no money, but maybe a lawsuit for the guys that dare to escape the JDK oligarchy. The two proprietary and locked-in-old-RISC-*nixes monsters, IBM and Java, that competed to make the x86 JRE slower with every release will not be happy, yet they are still not giving a darn (and that’s the starting point for a project killing).
Do not wonder if one day the 29 developers (including at least 2 romanians) will close the source and will offer you high-bill phone support. Looking at their mostly empty lists, I can think about what happened to JBoss. Hunger is an excuse, maybe the best of them.