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Clearly some people at Oracle think that way too. They probably paid a lot for 'owning' the Java language and runtime, and only to see that Google just develope

by d--b 11y ago

Clearly some people at Oracle think that way too. They probably paid a lot for 'owning' the Java language and runtime, and only to see that Google just developed their own, and copied the whole API on top of it. So they are probably pissed that their language is slipping away (Java is definitely no longer associated with the Oracle brand). Thing is Oracle got screwed in the first place, they shouldn't have thought they could "buy" the language.

groovy2shoes 11y ago
I don't think Java was ever associated with the Oracle brand. By the time Oracle acquired Sun, Java was already starting to slip away from being associated with Sun! "Java" was only ever qualified when referring to third-party implementations: you never heard "Sun Java", but you'd sometimes hear "IBM Java", etc. "Sun Java" at some point became just "Java". Personally, as a Java developer from 2005-2012, I never associated Java with Oracle. I can't imagine that I'm the only one. Even now, when I need a JRE or JVM, I navigate to http://java.sun.com/ http://java.sun.com/ instead of wherever it is I'm supposed to go.