This was prompted by a comment from Dave Rogers, reminding me that I have been away from writing for too long. After reading he article I was prompted to think about the circumstances under which someone who is recognized as a leader in the field of software development could change their mind about something…
The way IT is set up, there is a real penalty for realizing that you want to change, but at the same time the technology is changing so fast that we all need to change. Hence the leading Java gurus are unlikely to become the leading .Nyet gurus, even though for most practical purposes Java is indistinguishable from .Nyet.