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I still don't understand why Google did not buy Sun Microsystems. They hired a lot of the staff anyway, and could have avoided the lawsuit.
by sddfd 10y ago
I still don't understand why Google did not buy Sun Microsystems. They hired a lot of the staff anyway, and could have avoided the lawsuit.
- uiri 10y agoHiring the staff and handling the lawsuit - Google has their own in-house law firm anyways - has likely worked out to be cheaper for them than buying Sun Microsystems would have been.
- coredog64 10y agoYes, but the downside on a lawsuit if Oracle prevails will be much worse. Imagine, if you will, all that Sun IP in the hands of Google instead of Oracle. ZFS might have gotten a license friendlier to Linux, Solaris could have stayed open source, and I would put money on Google having spun Java out into a completely open foundation that wouldn't have done what Oracle has done with new EE versions.
- meddlepal 10y agoIt's $7.4 billion they didn't need to spend. The legal fees are a fraction of that.
- pikachuisntcool 10y agoDude, who cares? Fuck both of them they're both incumbent, bloated, shitty companies that we'd all be better off with if they just didn't exist