Catch me I’m falling down:.

Yesterday's big news included IBM withdrawing its offer for Sun, causing it to lose quite a lot of market value and putting in danger some of their managers. But what's really important is the discussion about the future and validity of the Java environment. IMHO the platform has being doing good so far because the ones in control are not as competitive as others, they don't care a lot about making profits, it's not in their nature, or maybe they just don't know how to do it, anyway, that's been good for all because it has allowed for many players to come, which ultimately promotes further improvements to the platform. I'm not sure if this environment can survive with someone as competitive as IBM in charge:.

I know it's not the same, because of the JCP, but I can recall one of the motivations for the Algol programming language, community concern about how IBM dominated the market with its most powerful tool at the time, Fortran!!:.

Walking on a dream
How can I explain
Talking to myself
Will I see again