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Google's implementation isn't proprietary, it is Apache licensed. I think the idea of the parent comments holds. The irony is exquisite. Google is solving their
by grizzles 11y ago
Google's implementation isn't proprietary, it is Apache licensed. I think the idea of the parent comments holds. The irony is exquisite. Google is solving their copyright infringement problem by copying & distributing vastly more Oracle code.
- Pyxl101 11y agoIt's not necessarily ironic. Oracle (or specifically Sun, which Oracle purchased) chose to create and distribute OpenJDK. They didn't choose to create Google's competing implementation, which perhaps they view as fragmenting the Java ecosystem.
- yincrash 11y agoSun actually released the OpenJDK in response to the implementation that Android uses (Apache Harmony, not "proprietary Google"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Harmony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Harmony