Steve On Java

To the Leaders, Management, and Board of Directors at Oracle Corporation,

We the undersigned formally request that Oracle Corporation release the entire JavaFX Platform as open source software available for modification and reuse by individuals, educators, and corporations.

Open source software has transformed the way that we build and use software. It has increased the educational reach of technology, allowed new and innovative applications to emerge, and spawned the growth of communities dedicated to software philanthropy. Java has been at the forefront of this revolution, providing a platform for open source development, and becoming an open source effort in itself.

JavaFX is an innovative technology built on top of Java that allows the creation of next generation Rich Internet Applications (RIA). We believe that an essential part of the future success of this platform is to release it as open source software. This would increase adoption by companies that fear lock-in or are concerned about technology maturity. It would also make it competitive with other RIA platforms that have embraced the open source model.

We recognize that Oracle Corporation has made a significant investment in JavaFX technology, and continues to grow and extend the platform. We encourage Oracle to continue their investment in the JavaFX platform, including monetization of the platform through training, support, and other professional services. In our estimation, the increased adoption of JavaFX will make the platform even more profitable for Oracle than it currently is as a proprietary technology.

Therefore, we proudly make this request to open source the JavaFX platform in the mutual interest of JavaFX technology and the future success of Oracle Corporation.

Alain Portalis,

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Please open it :-)

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Miguel Fialho,

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John Lewis,
And please re-brand it as the Oracle FX or (OFX) because it sounds it sounds cooler and it gets your name out there.

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This would be one way to increase adoption of the JavaFX platform, over the more popular Flex/Flash platform. I for one would be greatly pleased to see this take the market share from Adobe.

Mark Anro Silva,

Josh Aldana,
Many of the current concerns about JavaFx focus around its longevity and its slow update schedule. With an open source platform, JavaFX would greatly benefit from an avid community.

Octacilio,
precisamos de documentação com exemplos práticos.

Pedro Bettencourt Reis,

Srikanth Shenoy,
Open sourced JavaFX will remove resistance for adoption, increase adoption and innovation at the same time and yield more benefits to Oracle and the JavaFX community at the same time. So, please consider open sourcing JavaFX

Babel,

Jose Fung,
Java FX is Open Source

Thaís Alonso,

Eduardo Vieira,
People underestimate the potential of the JavaFX.

Matt Warman,
JavaFX could be a great language to write Android Applications. To be able to have a single application to run on Android phones, computers, and TVs would make JavaFX a popular choice for developers. This won't happen if Lawsuits like Oracle V Google occur. Regardless of the merits of the case, an Oracle only controlled JavaFX will not grow, expect as a swing replacement. An open JavaFX with community support will allow JavaFX to work on all manner of devices. Additionally, the community has needs for the language to grow and mature, and an open language will better served my listening and prioritizing the issues.

Leandro Del Sole,
JavaFX needs it!

Fabricio Maciel,
Open Source now

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Eric M. Smith,
Programming languages thrive based on the excitement of the development community behind them. When languages remain proprietary, the excitement behind them wanes rapidly and the language stagnates. But when languages are OpenSource, the community behind them builds excitement and the languages continue to improve. Through improvement comes adoption. And through adoption comes strength, stability, and profitability.

Dr Andrew John Hughes,

Malik Ahmed,
Java has thrived in the open-source community, and so will JavaFX. Please give JavaFX the opportunity to shine that it so rightly deserves!

BREHIER Guillaume,

Charles Lowell,

GAILLARD Nicolas,

István Hetesi,

Jason Froehlich,

Ward Wright,

yc.xie,
开源才是王道!!

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Koss3982,

Peter Hristozov,

Gowtam Salgar,

Alain Fagot Bearez,

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Danny Chin,
Hi Oracle folks ! JavaFX could either be a Living Dinosaur in 21 century or Fossil in the history of RIA. The only way to avoid extinction is by open source it, no Joke !. You can't rip big profit from runtime license sales in a fragmented Mobile Phone Market that you don't own, J2me age is over and Flash age is coming!. What make you think that Nokia, Samsung, Apple, etc will let JavaFX to rule them all ? What make you think that you can possibly roll out your dedicated Oracle-JavaFX Phone and ask all developer to worship you? and finally, what make you think that we as Developer will continues to fall in love with JavaFX? Please.... don't be naive ! After all it is just a language. Please.....open source the runtime and I will make sure JavaFX can even run in our watch, projector, etc....

Leonardo Perez,
Make it good. Make it open source.

Robert Casey,
We need a strong open partnership with Oracle to make JavaFX the definitive rich application solution for all modern computing platforms.

Nicolás Zalaquett,
JavaFX will only benefit as Open Source

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Jiakuan Wang,
Open source for JavaFx is good for all parts.

Adriano de Souza,

Barry Williams,

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Im new and i need to learn i like very mucho programmig

Gonzalo Suárez,
Open JavaFX now!

Mathias Menzel,
request for open source

Miquel Santos,
Open JavaFX now!

Lajos Kiss,

Oscar Cala,

Jonnes Tahara,
JavaFX Open Source now!

Jose Guevara,
With HTML5 soon, JavaFx and the others will have problems, opensource is the only competitive strategy

Hayden Jones,

Jim Basil,
Please OS JavaFX

Kim Topley,

Gordon Clark,
I agree with the purposes of this petition. If JavaFX is OpenSource, it will continue to grow the community (as well as the product itself), creating more opportunities for Oracle to charge to train individuals who want certification.

Christian Glökler,
Open is better than closed

Tomas Jurevicius,
Please make JavaFX OpenSource

Saager Suhas Mhatre,
Power to the People!

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Daniel Alfenas,

Verena Müdespacher,

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Ride the change!

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Sheikh Mohammad Sajid,
Necessary for wider and speedy adoption

Christian-Luc Houze,

Gottfried Theimer,
Adopted JavaFX for product development. Our investment in this technology I do not want to see misguided. I believe that JavaFX has superior potential for high-end UI development. But to realize that potential lots of work is still left to be done. Open-sourcing it could be a great boost.

Edson Martins,

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Tariq Rafique,
Java remains famous for its openess and java tools and frameworks from the JAVA HOME should be open too. Share it.

Hubert Behaghel,

Bobby Jaffer,
Allow JavaFX to thrive! Open source it!

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Giovanni Tosto,
Open is better than closed

Curt Cox,

Amos Wenger,
Don't be evil.

George,
Open source is good.

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JavaFX debe ser libre asi como su antecesor Java. JavaFX hará el paso más grande en las aplicaciones RIA al ser multiplataforma, ser web y a la vez de escritorio y poder integrar muchas tecnologias ya existentes como los EJB. JavaFx no debe ser atado. Muchas gracias

Miroslav Flusko,

Ramin Mohammadi,
Commited JavaFX Developer who would love to see the change!!

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Haim Michael,
www.lifemichael.com

Héctor Guerra,
Share the knowledge, don't left big "product" to the humanity, left a legacy,

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Gustavo Revilla,

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JavaFX opensource

Douglas Dias,

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Salc2,
please oracle give us that pleasure =)

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French student, University of Toulouse 3

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Jeremy,
From France

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Rakesh Menon,
Request to open source the JavaFX platform

Joe,
开源! 开源! 开开源!

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开源! 开源! 开开源!

Frank E.,

Luis Barragan,

Marcos Bernal,
Marcos Bernal desde Paraguay

Vivek Gani,

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James Watmuff,

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Open sourcing JavaFX will increase platform adoption and innovation. Seems like a win-win for Oracle.

Jafen Chen,
I hope that javafx become better.
Open it!!

Hsiaoyi Wen,

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JavaFX libre augmenterait la confiance des acteurs du web dans cette solution.

jonathan sanchez,

Pablo Marcondes,

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Florian Brunner,

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Zohan Vladimir,

Denis Yeremeev,

Parag Tiwari,

Thomas Heynen,

Grzegorz Grzybek,

Michal Margiel,

Alejandro Ayala,
I am a Ecuatorian developer, Congratulations on the initiative. Greetings.

Joó Ádám,

Rémi Barraquand,

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nabil chraa,

Marios Vodas,

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Dmitry Shultz,
Open Source JavaFX!

Richard Cassidy,

christophe,
closed, javafx might just stumble onwards for a few years, and succumb to a slow drizzle of a death. open, it will just explode, especially if an effort is made to make the runtime API easily usable from the myriad of other languages now blooming on the JVM. be smart oracle.

Humberto Streb,
Another Brazilian developer supports a Opensource JavaFX.

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Will Humphreys,

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min wu,
Well, what I can do to support jfx at present is to let others know-----There is someone who loves javafx as well as java.

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Java n'est pas le langage ultime, il est déjà concurrencé sévèrement par C#.net
rendre libre JavaFX fait tu tords à la concurrence.

Alexis Muller,

chapuis gregory,

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Daniel Rodrigues,
Brazil wants JavaFX as Open Source Software!

daniel cortez,
please make the JavaFX specification a un open source!

Cheran,
Yes! please make this as open source...

Domenico Briganti,

bhangun,
dari Indonesia Setuju... please go on

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小陆,
真心希望JFX更强大。

Agustin Ramirez,
Yes ,please make the JavaFX specification a un open source!!!

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Manuel PAYET,

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João Carlos Cabral,
OpenSource now!
OpenSource Já!

Please! :)

Philippe Weber,

Léo Grange,

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Open Source Please!!

Mr. Scott Olson,

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my english is not very good .please open sourse

Michel Nolard,
So that Java will become the first professional grade open source platform worldwide.

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Bettina Polasek,

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Zsolt Szilagyi,

gabor bernath,

Xavi,

Gabor Takacs,

Dora Szucs,

Samuel Spycher,

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Just do it ;)

Rita Kis,
Please open!

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please do not use my email for spreading news, advertisement, etc. but for the sole purpose of this petition.

Oleksandr,

Agoston Bejo,

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martin,
Open Source Software. Even more complete.

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Go 4 IT!

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JavaFX as open source would be great!

Serge Smeesters,
Just do it!

edmond dobryk,

Franklin Antony,
Count me in!!!

Dankahazi Istvan,
Open Source JavaFX Petition

罗光春,
支持javaFX开源

Fawad Hassan,
Open Source Please!

Christofer C. Bell,
I'm excited about Java, but uncomfortable using any portion that is proprietary. History has shown that, aside from those poor souls locked into Microsoft software, proprietary development tools have a hard time penetrating the market. The rest of Java is already there, let's bring JavaFX up to par with the Java family!

Napu Sun,
Open source is the key for business. More and more companies only want to use Open source products to build their system.
I'd like to see complete Open Source JavaFX.

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I want to be one member of JAVAFX..

Flavio Menezes dos Reis,
freedom for all

Kyle Lund,
Oracle, I will DESTROY YOU if you don't do this!!!

Sebastian Xu,
For the future of JavaFX, open source it, please!

renard,

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Viktor Mojr,
It could be good for kick down flash, lets try it again!

jignesh shirke,

Álvaro Hernández Tortosa,
OpenSource proves to be a clear path to widespread and success. Please, consider open sourcing JavaFX, a platform with a huge potential.

Georges Gomes,
I believe in JavaFX potential in the rich-client-side.

Patrick Charron,

Miguel Casallas,
is a great initiative, please Oracle listen our prayers

Axzel Marin,
This will increase javafx use

Dominik von Wyl,

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Java is OpenSource why not JavaFX

Hakim,

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Arnaud Casteigts,

TOTH Csaba,

David Contreras Magaña,
Liberad esta tecnología o morid en el intento de extenderla mu-ha-ha-ha! hace ya años que debería estar en la calle rompiendo esquemas, y aún no es sino un esbozo.

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An Alliance with Adobe will be the best part for Java. PROVEN Frontend Technologie from Adobe and SOLID Backend Technologie from Java. Back to the Main Skills.

Hadrien Titeux,
For open source!

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Eduardo Gonzalez,

MARTINEAU Emeric,
Java is OpenSource why not JavaFX

Nicolas Dumoulin,
Join us now, and share the software!

Kostis Anagnostopoulos,
Tools must be, at least, open-source.

Josep,

David Sauter,

Stephane Vast,
Free JavaFX or it will die.

Lala Flozki,

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Openness is the only way to counter Flash/Moonlight!

Clément RICHE,

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Libérez le logiciel !

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Open source and free software are really an opportunistic way of making money.
Free the technology !

Paul Poulet,

Bruno Jobard,

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Damien Persohn,

Esteban Salazar,

Armando Flores Ibarra,
Oracle giving something to community? I don´t think so. Anyway, it worth dreaming =)

lifxue,

jimzhou,
waiting...

sakura,
永远开源。

Gabriel Condori,

Marlon MT,

Pablo Alandia,
JavaFX :P... just let it be... pls!

LiuGuoWei,
like javaFx...

VictorQiu,
在四面受敌的今天,只有开源才能给它注入生命力

jefyjiang,
开源了的javafx才更有生命力

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Java sucks but with an open JavaFX it rocks !

Robert David A. Cárdenas,

Christophe Pourbaix,

Dante Frías,

Eric Bruno,

Marcos Cotonieto,

Jose Luis Cetina,

Gerardo Abad,

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Sebastien Lorquet,

Antonio Fernando Amorim,
Yes we can

Michal Baranecki,

Pierre Couillard,

Tilatti,

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Apostolos Syropoulos,

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Vesa-Matti Meriläinen,

Julian Guevara,
Java libre por siempre. Java FX Open Source.

Vance Arocho,

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Cristian Landa Espinoza,

Walter J. Franck,

Teimatini Marin,

Willy Jove,
Open Source is the Future

Ed Koster,

Tome Serge,

Karlin Fox,
BSD-alike license please!

Jonathan Smith,

Fernando Poblete,

Eduardo Garcia,

Roberto Martínez,

Michel Graciano,

Armindo Silva,

Thomas Martin Klein,

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Open Java FX Now !!

Sylvain Paré,

Fabian Collaguazo,

Kees Kuip,
We use swing extensively now but we need a successor.
JavaFX will be the successor if only it is open source.

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JavaFX is really interesting, but I also want my programs to be (potentially) used by people who don't want proprietary software on their computer.

Mathieu Parent,

Pierre-Yves Luyten,

Spencer George,

Moreau David,
JavaFX without open source... No...

Pablo Benjamin Gutierrez,
Please, help us and ... help yourself Oracle

Guillaume Chanaud,
The way to go to get marketshare against silverlight and flash.

Gauthier Libéral,

Laurent Desgrange,

Alejandro Ramirez,

juan rodríguez,

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Christian Weiss,

Olivier Caelen,

Henry Stivens,
Por un Java Libre y para todos!

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Eric Magraner,

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Cristian Iturra Burgos,

Carlos Diaz,
Always all Java Open source.....the just

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Guillermo,

Mauro Monti,

goodsforyou,
If JavaFX runtime is not distributable, I have to use Swing in Intranet application.

Sebastian Gift,

Morten Sjøgren,

Patricio Howard,

Vladimir Castro,

hxp,

Mariano Ruiz,

Demian Gemperli,

Rodrigo Fernandez,

David Horvath,

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stone,
I love javafx!

Deng ZiQin,
JavaFX open

Francisco,

Darren Fuller,
I've only recently come across JavaFX, it has the potential to be big and I believe that open sourcing it will help to give it the push into the limelight that it truly deserves.

Carlos Garcia,
Open JavaFX!!!!!!!

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AK,
期待..开源

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Lubomir Rintel,
Technical superiority and good community support could make this a Flash & AIR killer. Why you have the first, you won't get the latter unless you open it up for technies. You know they'd love to see/hack on the source :)

Lisandro León Del Real,

zengqingnang,

Arnes Arnautović,
Open source is good! Close source is bad!
Open source is good! Close source is bad!

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Vamos allá!! Here we go!!

Francesc Magdaleno,

Diego López León,

Ivan Li,
Open JavaFX and customizable JRE redistribution

AngeL Lopez,
open like as java!!

sirius516,
i like javafx

Artem,
It will be definitively good for JavaFX!!

Isaias,
I want a javafx open source!!!!

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I think this is the way forward for JavaFX

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j支持开源

辛哥,
JavaFx is good to be open source ！

Christoph Schwerdtfeger,

Juan Diego Moreira,

Vusa Dube,
JavaFX Lives! RIA for all!

超级奶爸老谭,
Want to be able to open source Java Fx, which is a Rich Client side Java in hope.

Levente Csukas,

Imre Fazekas,
JavaFX rocks!

Alejandro Pérez García,

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Samuele Veneruso,

Barnabás Südy,

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JeetChan,

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Zsolt Dürvanger,

Lian Wang,
I support javaFX, JavaFX technology has good prospects, it will open the way to guide more passion and creativity of the engineers.

张尊伟,

Vladimir Stefanović,

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Dirk Leinhos,

Miroslav Binas,

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Mohammed Habib,

Andor Karoly,

Manuel Tijerino,
If Oracle looks out for the interest of developers like Sun did, people will embrace Oracle. Open Sourcing JavaFX will make JavaFX more popular and the Oracle community stronger.

Lucas Murata,

Ray Wen,
Open source of JavaFX will is a great contribution to all human beings.

John Gary B.,
Please consider this proposal.

Thank you.
John

Gen,
it will be good to oracle and all the fans of javaFX.

Jozef Cervenansky,
JavaFX opensource for us all! Slovakia

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Marek Hudik,

Abraham Otero,

Pawel Kierat,

Zoltan Zidarics,

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Gerry Giese,
Free the tech, increase adoption, keep Java alive and well. Do it for the community!

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Ivo Limmen,

Marek Olsavsky,

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Go JavaFX opensource!

Guilherme Pina Cardim,
Go JavaFX open source!!! From Brazilll

Pedro Gracia,

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Keeping JavaFX closed is not going to help it gain market share against Flash. Why let the web be Java + Flash when it can be Java + JavaFX

sipieter nicolas,

Alex Ignácio da Silva,
For those who are afraid of investing their time and money in JavaFX, open sourcing it would be a clear indication that the technology will have a bright future ahead! Make a bold move now and don't make the decision too late...

Renam Sávio,
Open source is the best way to achieve great success. Knowledge for all of us.

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Alexis Robert,

Paul Messina,

Thiago Baptista,
Open source is the very core of the Java Platform power. Why go against it?

Marcelo Morales,

Rafael Gonzaga Camargo,
Go JavaFX open source!!!

Stephan Sokolow,

asif ali rizvan,

John Drinkwater,
If there’s one tech sat a-top HTML5 that i’d tolerate, it would be a Java & FLOSS JavaFX

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JavaFX opensource for us all!

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Please open source JavaFX,

Mathieu Bridon,

Diego E F Biavati,
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Seiffeddine,
Free JavaFX!!!!!!

Linus Larsen,
Sure open up JavaFX, but also let us play with JMC (the media part). If there was a way to write plugins or if we where allowed to use platform specific plugins (gstreamer, quicktime, windows media). Then we can kiss flash goodbye.

Eduardo Teixeira,
JavaFX needs to gain momentum against Flash and Silverlight. Making it open-source can make the community around it bigger, stronger and more active.

Martin J.,

Alexis Dufrenoy,
JavaFX has no future if it's not open-source.

James Tait,
People such as Simon Phipps have done some phenomenal work to get the majority of the Java stack freed under the GPL. It would be a slap in the face and an insult to these people if their efforts were nullified by a refusal to complete the job and free the remaining technologies as well.

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Yaroslav,

Xerxes Rånby,

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I think, OpenSourcing JavaFX, makes it the de facto language for opensource products :)

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Xavier MOGHRABI,
Open sourcing JavaFX is the only way to take an advantage against Flash or Silverlight.

Martin Nedbal,

Ulrich Biberger,
JavaFX needs a stronger momentum. Open source might be able to push it forward. Hopefully.

Olivér Érdi,
Please opening.

Michael Marques,

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David Brown,
I support open sourcing JavaFX.

Andrey Onistchuk,
Great

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Plz to let javaFX live ?
kthxbai

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Dai,

Marcelo Malheiros,

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Bart Vanbrabant,

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Great idea, I gladly sign this!

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it must be open indeed

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Opening JavaFx would help JavaFx to be embraced by a bigger amount of developers.

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Ben Burger,
good idea

Aidan Delaney,
When projects such as JavaFX are open source, with a healthy community, it delivers the necessary vote of confidence I need in order to integrate it into my teaching. Otherwise it's simply yet-another new UI toolkit that may disappear at a moments notice.

Roberto Meneghetti,

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it must be open like java is :)

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Douglas Wilson,

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David Sandquist,

Peter Moberg,

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Rahul Sundaram,
From the viewpoint of mainstream Linux distribution adoption, Free and open source licensing is a requirement and since Sun went as far as opening up Java, doing the same to JavaFX would be a consistent strategy.

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We haven't even considered JavaFX due to uncertainties around its future development and licensing.

Máirín Duffy,

Séra Zoltán,

Luiz Lima,
It's a chace to make JavaFX expand it's realm.

Wilson Nazareno de Almeida,
For the greater good!

Wellington Pinheiro,

Leonardo Fabris,
If all users work together, we can bring it to the top!

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The benefits are obvious. There is a lot of potential to be earned by making JavaFX open source.

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Brandon Pancost,

lillian angel,

Shantha Kumar,
The Whole world can use its brains to make JavaFX a success if Oracle out sources it.

Robert Marcano,

Johnny Khawand,

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Joonas Sarajärvi,

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Rui Araújo,

Rui Araújo,

Rui Araújo,

Rodrigo Araujo,

Scott Bradford,

Chapelard Mathieu,

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Fernando Briano,

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Leandro Leites,

Moussa Diao,
Java is my first langage of programming because it is opensource. I practice it since la first time of programming.
So I'm fan of Java and see javaFX as a new revolution because his opensourcing.

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Hope to see JavaFX as a strong contender for RIA alongside Flash/Silverlight

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It would be fiscally prudent to take contributions from the open source community. I can't even begin to imagine the amount of free man hours that Oracle could gain from contributions/enhancements by the community. Here is to hoping.

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Jure Repinc,
Free (as in freedom) and open source software is the smartest way to go into the future

Peter Bak Nielsen,

Marcos Vasconcelos,
We need serious developers in this project.
Let anyone who want to make it better develop it.

Desmoulins,

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Olivier Deboyser,

Adam Dean,

Levente Santha,
Open sourcing JavaFX is critical for making it work on the JNonde platform.

Anderson Pierre Cardoso,
OSS always. In my company there's peoples even thinking on abandon Java at all, because of the oracle tendency on closing the plataform.

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I support freeing JavaFX, it might accelerate its maturity

Michael Azzi,
I fully support this petition, and thank Stephen Chin for initiating it. The JavaFX platform is in a critical situation right now, having fallen dangerously way behind the other competing platforms in terms of momentum, and adoption that only a drastic measure such as this can shift the balance back in favor of JavaFX. And like Stephen said, it is a win win for Oracle anyway that it should be a no-brainer for them. So please do it and rescue Java on the client. And while you're at it finish up the Android port too.

Jean Beaudet,
Libérez-le et je l'adopte!

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I would like to see javafx gain more momentum and compete with other tools in Desktop and RIA space.
Thanks

Kerleston P. Bom,
Brasil na luta pelo software livre

Ricardo H. T. N. Brancaglion,

Johannes von Bargen,
either open source it, or loose

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Tiago Peczenyj,
Free JavaFX Free (but use a BSD License please)

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javaFX needs a real boost up now, in order to reach a real success

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Thiago Rocha Patrício,

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Gilton Nascimento,
Free the JavaFX in you!!

Rafael Ubiratam Clemente Afonso,

Alex Xavier,
Unindo forças em prol do JAVAFX.

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Sebastian Paetzold,

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Derek Berube,

henni,

Werner Keil,
At least parts should be open and standardized, even Microsoft or Adobe start realizing that slowly, but their approaches are far better adopted. At the moment, even a closed source RIA approach like CURL may have more adoption than JavaFX ;-)

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Ronny Trommer,

Baptiste Grenier,

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Yeah, I agree. Lets open source it.

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Charlie Mordant,
Open source will make it grow faster and faster. I hope it will be, and surpass others RIA in the near future

Christian Reuschling,

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Witold Graca,
It's amazing what JavaFX has done so far but it needs more dynamic and energetic development process and those are things that can be provided by Open Source Community in return for opening JavaFX. In my opinion JavaFX needs working streaming support which could be used as a client solution for Media Serwers, usable design tool and support for most popular codecs. Make JavaFX open, we'll make it BIG.

Eric Quesada,
No more hidden code... please...

Damien Gombault,

Dejan Dimic,

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Aleix,
For me open source means learning a lot from those smart people around, so please open it !!! :-)

Antonio Ivars Badía,

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Just give it free.

Andrey Rybin,
+1
Great idea!

Rajendra,

Michael Karneim,

Nguyen Phuc Nguyen,
Contribution of the opensource communities, open communication form Oracle and clear roadmap are vital things for the success of JavaFX.

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Pierre Thibault,
In 2010, open source is the way to go. Give back the tool to developers and they make a powerful weapon.

DALTRO BARBOSA,
Let's GO JavaFX - Brazil!!!

Raphael Marques,

Mauricio Schoenfelder,

Patrick Webster,

Thiago Oliveira Pinheiro,

Thyago Machado Cassimiro,

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From brasil

Open pls!!!

Daniel Henrique Joppi,

Samir Moreira Antonio,

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cheers from Brazil!

Carlos A Oliveira,
Open source it!

Victor V. Serta,

Thiago Tadeu,

Bengt Rodehav,

Fabio Riccardi,

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Nick Apperley,
Open sourcing JavaFX would give it a chance to compete with the other major RIA platforms. As a result of being open sourced it would allow a significant number of people to participate (more rapid improvement of JavaFX), and see many more projects being built using the technology (increased uptake).

Other capabilities would be able to be added (eg media manipulation, basic multi-threading) as a result of the technology being open source. Although JavaFX is reasonably successful at the moment it has the potential to have much more success if it was FULLY open sourced. Lets not have JavaFX's potential hindered by being closed sourced.

Wojciech Halicki-Piszko,

Berislav Kovacki,

Wolfgang Reinhardt,

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Herbert Mühlburger,

Andrzej Gladkowski,

Christian Felde,

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Les Stroud,
I understand the need to keep control until the dev tools are complete...but, the timeline in combination with Oracle's anti blog-ness is killing it's prospects. Then again, if they deliver something fully baked then it would be an extremely welcome change.

andrei oprisan,

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I agree. We will have faster and better evolution when other companies or enthusiasts contribute.

Pedro Hidalgo,

jolestar,

Arbab,

Jess Holle,

Per Lundholm,

senthilnathan sk,

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Java lacks of multimedia features ... JMC, as part of JavaFX, would be great. But the license hinders us to use it ...Make it open source ...

Adam Warski,

Andreas Fuerer,

Mario Jorge Pereira,

Karl Pongratz,
JavaFX as open source sounds to be the right future.

Martin Paulo,

Thibaut Barrère,

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Mykola Golubyev,

Michael Widmann,
There's only one possibility to survive - get open!

vignesh anand,
open source is the way to go for javafx' future

Kai Hoever,

Gyasudeen,

Serge Rehem - JavaBahia JUG Leader,
I don't know why Sun didn't do that. Now Oracle has THE chance to fix this mistake and open source the amazing JavaFX platform.

Matías Ventura,

Gerald,
JavaFx free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Peter Eltgroth,

Theodore Casser,

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Jeff Jensen,

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Aristides Villarreal Bravo,
OpenSource of JavaFx Platform is very important..

Scott Fraser,
Yes, do it! Before it's too late...

Jeremy Ross,

ENNIN JETER,
Great

Clint Combs,

Marcello Teodori,
having an opensource javafx means also not being tied to the online runtime distribution, I wasn't able to use it and switched to swing then to a flash projector for a portable application on a usb key

Roger Padilla,
Please, do it asap!

Niciolas GIRARDIN,
Becuase JavaFX could be far way better than Silverlight and Flex...

Marcus Luiz,

Clemens Eisserer,

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Mohsin Hijazee,
I'd suggest that JavaFX and Java platform be open sourced under GPL. A GPL would ensure your stakes into it and its a WIN WIN situation. You've got enough money from hardware sales.

Bruno F. Souza,

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Drew Jensen,

Carl Dea,
Dear Sirs,

A lot has happened since JavaFX's inception that provided the most productive Graphics, UI, and Media development experience I'd ever been exposed too. I am encountering numerous customers wanting to use it for many problem domains but unable to due to license restrictions. Please consider this petition to increase its adoption and further the platform. I believe it is the next logical step to take on competing technologies due to is close integration with Java-like languanges.

Respectfully,
Carl Dea

Stefan Dietiker,

Malte Viehweger,
I think we all need a good alternative to flash, and JavaFX won't reach this goal unless it is open-source.

John Ament,

Christoph Baldauf,

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Ettore Atalan,

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Avdhesh,

Bjoern Schmidt,
Please Oracle free JavaFX!

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I love JavaFX more than ANDROID, SILVERLIGHT, FLASH, JavaScript with HTML5 and the others. And one more things, we need some free video codecs. I don't know VP8 has to be. Anyway, if we could get a free codec and open source JavaFX, then Oracle will get entire floor of the Itlantic Ocean I think.

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Thomas Mueller,
Computer/Internet world could use an open alternative to Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight! Open-sourcing JavaFS figures to make it much more attractive.

Dave Koelmeyer,

Tomasz Rydzewski,

Pär Dahlberg,

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I agree, we'll see faster evolution when other companies or enthusiasts can contribute.

João Gonçalves,

Dr. J Putnam,

Antonio Antonelli,

Dr. Frank Fischer,

Matteo Battaglio,

Costantino Cerbo,

Bogdan Prishedko,

Sven Gosslau,
Give JavaFX the chance it deserves - go Open Source and unleash undreamed-of possibilities for your investment!

Christoph Steindorff,
This technology can only survive as open source. And it is worth to survive.

Reginaldo Russinholi,

Bartosz Makara,
Hey Oracle! Don't be shy, please make JavaFX open source because JavaFX has real chances to be the standard for multimedia and interactive media in the world wide web!

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Tomas Ekeli,

Iain Shepherd,
Java deserves to be a common and popular presence on desktops. Oracle, Java has catching up to do here - this would give it a big boost.

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Oracle, show that you don't suck at Open Source :-)

Rémi Emonet,

Raphael Ackermann,

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Markus KARG,
Open Source will provide JavaFX the final push needed to get it widely adopted.

Kristjan Schmidt,

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anil chalil,

Chad Salamon,
JavaFX is an impressive language with numerous valuable features. We've only begun to see what it is capable of. With improvements and expansions from the open source community, it could easily eclipse the competing technologies and become the de facto RIA standard. It will wither and die if it is left closed source. It would be sad to see such an innovative technology die off for such a simple reason. I understand that there are technical issues that limit your ability to open source this quickly. This should be a high priority.

Steven Bixby,

giovanni stiwes,

Ran Biron,
Close-sourcing JavaFX stops it from being used in enterprise environments as, on one hand, its not mature or stable enough, and on the other hand, you can't customize your way around bugs (or even peek inside to see where the bug is).

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Mario R. Vallejo,

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Open Source is the way for Java FX.

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Mauro H de Freitas Jr,

Manfred Moser,

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Eric Kolotyluk,
JavaFX will likely just die unless it is open source. If JavaFX dies, then Oracle will have nothing to monetize.

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Sean Parsons,

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Brian Leathem,
Closed source JavaFX is a barrier to developing JavaFX apps in a competitive RIA environment.

Mike Mormando,
The only "barrier" to open sourcing I've heard was the inclusion of the On2 codecs, which have now been open sourced by Google. Lets get it done!

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I never heard about JavaFX. But an Java alternative to Flash / Silverlight.. sounds great.

jitesh dundas,
Please consider this request. Open Source is good for all of us, including you.

regards,
Jitesh Dundas

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I work at university. We work a lot with Java and I would welcome if JavaFX would be as great as Java. This is possible with the help of Open Scource!

Florian Strankowski,
Keep on !

Michael Hoffer,
The idea of JavaFX is fantastic! Neither Flash nor Silverlight would have a chance if JavaFX was an open technology. It has got all the power of the Java platform. Many companies, programmers etc. would use JavaFX as part of their Java based projects. I would really like to switch from Swing to JavaFX for my visual programming interface. But I do not trust proprietory technology (like many others). I work as a scientist in a research group. For us it is highly important to use open technologies. This is also because of teaching is much more effective with open technologies. This will save the future of JavaFX. Why did Java become so popular at universities? This is also because Java is open source! Bring this technology to universities and I promise that it will rapidly spread. Please do not underestimate the power of the open source community!

-- www.mihosoft.eu --

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Sascha M. Schmidt,
be free.

Jamisson,
The possibility this make better with people who no was interess, it's really hard..

Alireza Haghighatkhah,
Nice job, Just do it! .... it will work

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Great opportunity to revive a dying technology and show that Oracle is not the bad guy it is often claimed to be. I have been writing Java for about 10 years, but never touched JavaFX simply because it is not open technology (yet?).

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Tobias van Treeck,

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Please don't relegate Java to middleware only scenarios.
Why should an architect choose Java when he can also take care of the client side using the same language and framework? Microsoft has a clear edge here. I strongly root for Java but sadly I'm afraid that JavaFX never had and never will have a chance. For example, am I the only one that would have liked to have JWebPane, say, 2 years ago? Which still isn't here today.

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Multimedia support for JavaFX on Linux is awful. An open source version will attract more developers to create a portable solution!

Robert K. Pauls,
JavaFX the first OpenSource alternative to flash & silverlight.

Mariano Schmidt,

Dan Revel,

Daniel Thoma,

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open source is a good way

josevnz,
This will foster adoption, specially than by being Open Source it can be shipped with Linux distros like Debian. Also community can give back to the project, really good idea.

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Just do it!!

Nina Nikolova,

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JavaFX should replace flash, silverlight & javascript
-- elmu edana

Patrick Forhan,
JavaFX will wither if the community can't dig in. For example, we could fix the horrendous video problems and perhaps even pull in VP8. Seeing how simple UI classes are done would do wonders for improving code quality.

Harald Hopfes,

Kai Fieguth,

Kallenbach,

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Please make JavaFX OpenSource

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oos for javaFX

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Please make JavaFX an open source project. For Silverlight there's Moonlight as an OSS project, Adobe tries to get people on the boat with http://www.openscreenproject.org/. If you -in contrast to your competitors- make the primary development line open source instead of forcing the community to maintain an independent open source implementation, this could really help this technology. In addition, if JavaFX catches attention, this would also push Java as a language for plattform-independent libraries rather than just plattform-independent (server) applications.

Nathan Pruett,

René F. Franke,
Open Mind - Open Source

Holger Engels,
open sourced javafx would be a valuable alternative to silverlight!

Maxwell Chiareli,

Slavomir Varchula,

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This is the only chance!

Sheldon du Trevou,
OS!

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Dr. Jürgen Kilian,

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Ingo Freitag,
Sun and Oracle had more than enough time to get JavaFX feature complete from RIA perspective.
After 2 years of beeing "almost there" now please let the OS community take over!

Sascha Vogt,

Philippe Lhoste,
JavaFX can only gain from being open source, gaining lot of new eyes on source, getting useful improvements/fixes (without necessarily waiting for official releases!), and so on. It is starting to be stable enough to survive such opening. With a proper mechanism to filter/approve patches, it will advance at a faster pace than currently.
And a more permissive license (like allowing runtime redistribution), eagerly waited by the community, it will break its bounds and fly! ^_^

Ingo Freitag,

Kevin Ostheimer,
Dear Oracles,

ask your self: Should universities and schools use silverlight instead of a "high sophistic (deprecated)" JavaFX engine?

Sincerely, Kevin Ostheimer

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I think it can be distributed better to the user, if its open source and usable with OpenJDK. Look at Ubuntu, OpenJDK is the default Java distri, and used by every Ubuntu user.

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Been developing Applications in JavaFX since the first beta came out. JavaFX has to be widely supported and popularity must be increased - this only happens if JavaFX becomes open source. You guys from Oracle overtook a great company who knew what Open Source is about, don't screw up.

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JavaFX should be OS!

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Steve Lindsay,
Make it so

Eric Warriner,

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Martin JANDA,
We have modular Swing application (JPA, Validation, GIS, ... hundreds components+tables / frame) JavaFX components are unusable for us. JavaFX graphics framework/scenegraph is what we want to use. So Open Source JavaFX

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Flash sucks! Please, give use the alternative!

Erik Auerswald,

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Michael Gallus,
Without opening JavaFX to the OpenSource community it will probably be ailing away and be forgotten before it will actually bring itself to full its potential
sorry for my bad englisch

Fabrizio Giudici,

Christian Meyer,

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Please make JavaFX OpenSource

Michael Mangeng,

Otto Hofmann,

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Mikael Couzic,

Ralf Folkerts,
Oracle, I develop in Java and like that, as Java is available on almost every Platform I work with; be it FreeBSD, Linux, eComStation, HP-UX, OpenVMS, AIX, .... However, when it comes to JavaFX I'm stuck to just a few Platforms. This definitely hinders me in using JavaFX or even try to migrate Swing-GUIs to JavaFX.

Stefan Katerkamp,

Ander Ruiz,
Making JavaFX open source will spread it to a wider Developer group

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Markus Fischer,

Florian Sievers,

Marcos Falconi,

Stefan Fleiter,

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Kevin Dewi,

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Oracle, open this source!

Jiri Prajzner,

Joerg Bredlau,

Kunas Ramazan,
JavaFX has a big potential. The only problem is, JavaFx is actually chained. JavaFX opensource ? Bye Bye Flash and Silverlight, rest in peace !!!!!

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Johannes Schneider,
I have invested a lot of time into JavaFX. Because I really like the technology.
But I will not a business project based on JavaFX with the current license. The risk is too great...

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Anurdha,

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source code now!

Sameer Vijaykar,

Joeri Sykora,
JavaFX really is an interesting technology to work with and I too believe it to be promising. However, I'm not yet convinced whether the current development pace is fast enough to maintain the interest for a lot of people who are currently using JavaFX. Making it open source will definitely speed up the development and it will be an improvement to the platform as a whole.

Martin Wildam,
The survive of JavaFX depends to a big portion on the source code status. Customers - especially in uncertain times - want to ensure ROI and safety of their investments in general. Open Source components and applications are prefered by Customers these days.

Rajmahendra,
Please OpenSource JavaFX and Free JavaFX Please consider this petition.

Carl Jokl,
In order for JavaFX to effectively compete in a highly competitive RIA space it will benefit from as much help from the community as possible. Being open source is likely to be a key differentiator of JavaFX technology from its competitors.

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Aleksandr Panzin,
Without open sourced JavaFX true multiplatform future of JavaFX is at stake.

Pradyumna Dandwate,
JavaFX is great, and Open source will make it legendary! Please consider this petition.

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OSS grows faster

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JavaFX ist the future!

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Do it, pls!

Stefan Broehl,
Go for it!

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Davide Giannella,
JavaFx is a promising technology. I'm considering adopt it for new web applications on job but I'm waving due to it's closeness.

Stanislav Semakin,

Rastislav Švarba,

Guido Amabili,
18 months after JavaFX 1.0 release, we developer can't still redistribute a JavaFX runtime with our application.
The kind of allowd deployment is good enough for Internet applications, but not for the other.
Where is Browser Control for JavaFX ?
C'mon you bought Sun company, but take also some of Sun's philosophy.

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Markus Levonyak,

Tim Haller,

Erik Vonderheid,

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Oracle release the entire JavaFX Platform as open source Open source open source Open source open source Open source open source Open source open source Open source open source Open source

Ingo Fischer,

Martin,

Brian Shultz,
Community Community Community

Felipe Espindola de Borba,

Casper Creyghton,
JavaFX is even more powerful with Oracle behind it, but can be huge with the power of the community, open for improvement and the success of its users and the Oracle Corporation.

Luis Henrique Muniz de Carvalho,

Renato Ramiro,

Nigel Eke,

Ricardo,

Derk Dukker,

Abhilshit Soni,
+1 for the growth of the platform

Mauro do Valle,
Expand OpenSource Project is a win-win great strateg

Peter Pilgrim,
JavaFX is still a fantastic solution to be portable, cross-platform, a technology which runs across mutliple deployment targets: desktop, mobile and other embedded devices and across multiple operating systems. An Open JavaFX will allow innovation to take place outside of Oracle completely and yet I also believe that the repository, the service / provider owner, intellectual property must be paid or monetised as well. I believe that people, individuals, groups and companies will recognise the work of those who innovate. It is possible to monetise JavaFX.

Cristian Pazzaglia,

Kiril,

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Ashwin Desikan,

Xavier Jodoin,

Eric Wendelin,
It is in Oracle's financial interest to open-source JavaFX

Fernando Martines,

Yannick Van Godtsenhoven,

Mike Britton,
Placing JavaFX in the hands of developers as an altruistic act will benefit everyone, and hurt no one. Please consider it.

Luiz Eduardo C. Neri,

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Morgan Nelson,
Long term feasibility of of the RIA platforms (Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and now JavaFX) will be determined not by the amount of money spent on development or even advertising, but the inexorable advance of open source technologies of the web. HTML5, the tag, and Javascript/ECMAScript all factor predominantly into the future of RIAs, and the smartest move at this point for Oracle and JavaFX, would be to place JavaFX in the winning camp, and make it so that interoperability of JavaFX and the HTML5 technologies is a trivial thing.

Many desktop developers are looking at these web technologies for Rich Client Apps, too. Just look at Adobe's Air product, and you'll see that someone in the industry thinks that a single platform for RIA and RCA is a good idea. By Placing JavaFX into open source, Oracle could begin to leverage an already significant investment, and shape both RIAs and RCAs for many years to come.

Emanuel Dário Rodrigues Sena,
JavaFX open source now!

Thales E. B. Oliveira,
Make this opensource tool to make development faster and with features that users want.

Alexey Ivanov,

Vitaliy Gerya,

Antoine Mischler,
Open sourcing the JavaFX platform would be a great step for this technology. I strongly believe that its strength is bound to it's developer community - and this would be a unique opportunity to increase this community.

Armin Töpfer,

Craig Day,
The tech we love to use more is invariably open source. JavaFX is the tech we want to love. Oracle, make it so.

Tamer KARAKAN,
For Light Speed Drive Development Progress JavaFX must be open source platform.

Hildeberto Mendonça,
I want to use JavaFX but I'm afraid about so many uncertainties. So, please, make it open source, keep your investments, push Oracle developers to create the best data visualization library ever in JavaFX, and lets make money together.

Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein,
Open sourcing is not a magic wand that brings immediate success to any software platform; but it surely is a important competitive advantage, one that may be critical when fighting a uphill battle. Old Sun famously dragged its feet for many years to open the SE/ME/EE platforms, but Sun was in a very comfortable position of market leader, they worried about what they had to lose either in control, licensing deals, developer mindshare, whatever. (Neither of these things happened after Java was set free!) But the situation is very different for JavaFX at this time. FX is already a great platform, in many ways already much better than its more established competitors, but so far this has not translated to significant market share. Open sourcing JavaFX looks to me as a good strategy at this time; besides, nobody wants the first Oracle-sponsored JavaOne to be a boring event without any major community-targeted announcements... ;-)

Ludovic Hochet,

Mark Brouwers,

Andreas Johansson,

Joerg Ruethschilling,
Opensourcing JavaFX opens the door to rich media businesses,
which strongly prefer open-source technologies.

This could become Oracle's chance to turn even small companies into partners and customers buying rich media delivery and management appliances and services from Sun Oracle.

Julien Buret,

kishore,
Open source JavaFX will bring more confidence to developer community.

Nicolas Delsaux,
Like it has been the case for the Java platform, open-sourcing the JavaFX platform will allow it more adoption by universities and the open-source community, and as a consequence increase its adoption in various buisnesses.

Patrick Champion,
http://paddyweblog.blogspot.com/

Chris Wright,
This could be one of the best steps forward for JavaFX! It is a great platform and I will gladly continue to develop in JavaFX.

Dean Iverson,
This is a great idea. Developer buy-in is critical in order for this technology to gain acceptance. Open sourcing the runtime would be a huge step in making that happen.

Jonathan Merritt,

Matthew Hegarty,
In the two years since its release, JavaFX has had a limited uptake from a small but dedicated band of enthusiasts. It has failed to live up to its potential and spread to a wider Developer group. In my view JavaFX does have a niche to fill, and the best way to drive it forwards is through substantial investment and/or open sourcing the platform.

Jo Voordeckers,

Steven Herod,
There is no doubt in my mind that JavaFX is a capable technology with a great deal of potential, but there is also no doubt that its behind the eight-ball when compared to alternatives.

Open sourcing JavaFX allow us to contribute and narrow this gap much, much faster.

Lucian,
Yes, more openness would be in JavaFX's benefit

Pedro Duque Vieira,
Open sourcing JavaFX will allow developers to further enhance the available API. Right now some areas are to obscure and difficult to extend as the developer has his hands tied because he doesn't know the mechanics of the systems underneath.

Gerald Turnquist,
I am in favour of anything that has the potential to reduce "force-fitting the Web to be an application execution environment" as Jim Weaver aptly puts it.

Rick Clyde,
An open source move would indeed be a positive thing and I look forward to such an announcement at this year's JavaOne conference in September..

Keith Combs,

Mark Macumber,
JavaFX has the potential for mass adoption, please make it open source to boost its position in the RIA market

Johan Vos,
JavaFX is the only RIA platform that is based on the powerful Java Platform. The combination of the Oracle-development with the community input and development can lead to an even better, faster and more robust platform. There are a number of successful Open Source Java initiatives at Oracle (e.g. Glassfish) proving that a commercial model is possible with an Open Source, community driven development model. I hope to see JavaFX on this list too.

Saša Slavnić,

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Thomas Buhr,
This would be a most positive step indeed! The interesting and most useful JavaFX aspects have come from the open source community already: the scenegraph, JFXtras and many more outstanding innovations. JavaFX got its start from open technologies and now its being locked up, no one can progress if their software designs are being held hostage or delayed.

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Sergey Surikov,
Engineers from the Sun couldn't build competitive technology from JavaFX. Community can help turn JavaFX into diamond if Oracle opens source code.

Sergey Surikov, RIA expert, JavaFX Star
My JavaFX portal: http://www.javafx.me/
My JavaFX thoughts: http://javafx.me/files/jfx/surikov2.html

Max Katz,

James L. Weaver,
JavaFX holds the potential of bringing back rich-client Java, after fifteen years of force-fitting the Web to be an application execution environment.

This is a critical time in application development, because HTML5 is becoming capable enough to continue the unfortunate pattern of offering our users far less than what they could experience with JavaFX.

One issue that has hindered the adoption of rich-client Java is speed and reliability of application deployment, particularly in the browser.

The adoption rate of JavaFX could be significantly improved by open-sourcing it, as well as open-sourcing related deployment technologies.

James L. Weaver
http://javafxpert.com

Lucas Jordan,

Weiqi Gao,
The open source nature of the openjfx-compiler was instrumental for the early evangelization and documentation of the JavaFX platform. Open sourcing the entire JavaFX platform will drive its adoption in the enterprise and independent software vendor sectors.

William Antônio Siqueira,
JavaFX must follows Java. JavaFX being Open Source will make it popular as Java in Open Platforms. We will can take JavaFX to Android, Maemo and others Open Platforms. We will can make JavaFX run on Community Open JVM. I'm sure that open source JavaFX is a essential step to make JavaFX a revolution on Rich Application development.

Fred Simon,
To be a leading UI platform you need to be open!

Silvio Schneider,
Open up JavaFx generates a win-win situation for Oracle. The developers get a software that they like working with and Oracle gets contributions to javafx jira tracker, code and documentation.

Stephen Chin,