Sharing, forking, and merging
InfoQ had a nice article about the various GNU Classpath/OpenJDK hybrids, mentioning the work by the various teams (icedtea, ikvm, cacao, etc) doing the integration with as conclusion:
It is encouraging that the code sharing is already going both ways. Free Software projects are not just incorporating the newly freed code, they are also helping to advance the OpenJDK. It seems clear that this is only the beginning.
Funny how the same facts can lead to both screaming hell and doom about evil forking or, as this article, praise the sharing of code. Sharing, forking, and merging code bases are always intertwined in interesting ways.