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Every time I read something about Oracle, I think this shop should be rebranded as Asshole Inc.
by cryptos 8y ago
Every time I read something about Oracle, I think this shop should be rebranded as Asshole Inc.
- numbsafari 8y agoSome would say it already is... One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison...
- pjmlp 8y agoYep, but neither Google after torpedoing Sun, nor IBM or any other Java relevant company cared to save Java assets from Sun. So here we are.
- geodel 8y agoIBM supported Apache Harmony which Oracle forced to shutdown. Google used harmony and they are still in legal quagmire.
- pjmlp 8y agoIf Google had given a penny to Sun for each Android device, Sun would still be around.
- geodel 8y agoI thought Sun was getting enough pennies on their J2ME thing. Wasn't that enough? Many claim here that it was a great platform and definitely better than Android.
- pjmlp 8y agoNot after Google torpedo Sun by giving away for free a rip-off implementation, which OEMs jumped into instead of keeping to give pennies to Sun.
- 0x7f800000 8y agoIf companies had to give a penny to Sun for every device which used Java, nothing would be written in Java.
- pjmlp 8y agoGoogle is the only company that refused to do it, trying to find a workaround around Java licensing. So yeah, companies were paying much more than pennies to Sun, until Google came around and offered them a (free beer) Java fork, thus torpedoing Sun profits regarding Java.