... because the Java community is largely fragmented. One can even argue, if the sum of all the fragments make up some kind of a single community. "Everyone" likes to run his own show. Every day someone, somewhere opens a new Java discussion forum, tries to set up some expert community.
Sun is also guilty of this. Maybe they even set a precedence. When Sun started
http://forum.java.sun.com/ years ago there were already existing, prommising community nucleuses elsewhere. But nut under the control or influence of Sun, and of course, Sun wanted to have control. So Sun ignored existing efforts and started there own "community". And by doing that fragmented the small communites of these times.
And even within Sun, people can't resist. I am sure some Sun PR bunny can explain the existance of http://forums.java.net/ and http://forum.java.sun.com/ in parallel with many nice, shiny words. From a one-Java-community point of view it doesn't make sense. |
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