"anything Red Hat does is intrinsically bad"
Not at all. I'm saying that politics is normal and good. I want RedHat, IBM, Oracle, etc to fight it out. Legally.
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Before replying, I took a step back, wondering what my position is. Here it is:
This modules effort feels like generics. JDK 1.5 adopted the least objectionable, and therefore least useful, design for generics. The rationalization was "backward compatibility", then and now. The correct answer was to retool the JVM and JDK as needed to do generics properly.
IMHO, Java has leaned too far towards backward compatibility. But what do I know? Java continues to do quite well, despite my objections.