Who is preventing the release of Java 1.7 ?
“He said it’s delayed as there are parties who are refusing to sign off JSRs they own and thus preventing the 1.7 release. It apparently has something to do with the cost of determining your Sun compliance.” “The basis of the problem is the release process itself. The Java Community Process was meant to bring a more democratic process to JDK development, but it’s turned into an awful, bureaucratic mess, with too many people having too much of a say on what happens.”
