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> Was java ever truly free though? Oracle's shenanigans indicate otherwise. It probably could have been, pre-Oracle.
by microcolonel 8y ago
> Was java ever truly free though? Oracle's shenanigans indicate otherwise.
It probably could have been, pre-Oracle.
- BrendanEich 8y agoNo, Sun was not looking to open it up and even got in a spat with Microsoft over Java. MS responded by pulling Java out of Windows, which broke Outlook Web Access and required fast work to implement the first XMLHttpRequest Active X implementation of that now-standard XHR (=> Fetch) API as replacement for the Java async-io class that OWA used while Java was in Windows.
- microcolonel 8y agoI meant that Oracle is less amenable to fixing the social issues they create surrounding their products, which hamper their usefulness.