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Authored by: scav on Monday, May 14 2012 @ 05:26 PM EDT |
Yeah it is. Remember at the very start of litigation, Oracle
very clearly declared that it was not about the money.
Rules of thumb:
1. When someone says it's not about the money, you can bet
it's about the money.
2. When Oracle say anything whatsoever, they are probably
lying.
3. When anyone hires BSF, they are probably after someone
else's hard-earned money AND prepared to lie through their
teeth about it.
Learn these rules well, and you will go far.
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The emperor, undaunted by overwhelming evidence that he had no clothes,
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 02:44 AM EDT |
Well, they've basically KILLED Java with this lawsuit.
The biggest reason people used it, and added to the Java community with various
open source implementations was because either:
0. they were assured lawsuits like this wouldn't happen. "Java is
Free"
1. they feared something like this would happen, and wanted a separate
implementation not ruled by Oracle.
if ( reason == 0 ) Oracle just proved it's dangerous to work on Java, and they
don't really think it's "free".
if ( reason == 1 ) Oracle just affirmed our worst fears and we will NEVER agree
to the TCK license required to call the implementation "Java"
This sucks. It was a decent language -- if you yank out the JIT it's pretty
secure -- So long Java, and thanks for all the beans![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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