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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 09:33 AM EDT |
The large numbers thrown around for numbers of programmers
etc. are purely there in order to imply massive investment
and huge value of Java, to inflate the idea of damages.
What these programmers were working on was more likely not
the core java APIs (J2SE stuff), but probably lots of the
various J2EE and external APIs which seem to spring up every
7 minutes and make it so hard to keep ones' knowledge up to
date with the platform.
The core java APIs *shouldn't* change that often (and AFAIK
don't). If they do it's because they are badly designed, and
isn't something to brag about.
It's like the 7 billion dollar figure that they are trying
to imply is the value of Java. It's completely disconnected
from the value of Java, just as these numbers of programmers
is disconnected from the people working on the APIs in
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