You've probably heard the news already, but according to his most recent blog post, the father of Java is leaving Sun/Oracle.
Personally, I believe that this may be a blessing in disguise. Gosling has always been the embodiment of a typical "techie" and getting sucked in to Oracle's all out corporateness probably isn't his thing.
We will see, but I am already looking forward to reading the news that Gosling joins forces with Red Hat's smartest minds. I am envisioning an all new Java-compatible OpenJDK-fork that allows us to reuse existing Java-code, yet, delivers new exiting functionality that the <insert your favourite platform here>-developers of today can't even think of just yet.
Go Gosling! Oh... and thanks for giving us Java!
