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The following is the fun history: - Java is created / owned by Sun. - Sun was fearful of MS's EEE approach (embrace, extend, exterminate) where MS took a thin
by Justsignedup 9y ago
The following is the fun history:
- Java is created / owned by Sun.
- Sun was fearful of MS's EEE approach (embrace, extend, exterminate) where MS took a thing, built their own, pushed their own tooling, added their own proprietary instruction, boom windows lock-in. So Sun basically made their contract: Java is free but only if you DO NOT introduce any new instructions, and implement a 100% compatible VM, nothing added or removed.
- Sun was making _some_ money out of mobile.
- Google introduced this pre-compiled java stuff. It used Java but compiled into binary. Sun was kind of excited. Java everywhere. Even though it violated the terms sun put out, sun was happy to get more java out there.
- Google / Sun had a more or less truce.
- Oracle bought sun. Sun didn't have much business left as Linux was obliterating their Unix business.
- Oracle saw the primary income from Sun as a lawsuit against google. And licensing on every Android phone period.
And thus today.
- TuringNYC 9y agoAnd given the paltry sum of the Sun acquisition, this is the M&A miss-of-the-decade for Google's M&A group.
- BenoitP 9y agoIt is sad that us developers -actors in the very resource they are fighting for (our mindshare)- do not get any say in this. Java belongs in a Foundation.
- monocasa 9y ago> Oracle saw the primary income from Sun as a lawsuit against google. And licensing on every Android phone period. I think they see the Sun acquisition more as controlling the Cobol of the 21st century. Putting a stick in Google's eye is just icing on the cake.
- pjmlp 9y agoSun wasn't happy at all, see Gosling interviews. They just didn't had enough money to sue and decided to make juice out of lemons.