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I'm not talking about a contractual assurance here. There are a million ways he could clear the confusion over this. He could easily have picked up the phone
by zmmmmm 16y ago
I'm not talking about a contractual assurance here. There are a million ways he could clear the confusion over this. He could easily have picked up the phone and chatted with Larry about it. It would have been simple for him to get some kind of in principal agreement about a handover of the reins. Then he could easily have made a public statement that let everyone know that some arrangements were in place for Oracle to pick up the ball. Or if Larry's playing hard ball he could tell everyone that Oracle is not picking up the ball - either one would be better than just leaving it unstated.
- nikster 16y agoI don't know, to me it makes a lot of sense that Apple's CEO doesn't unofficially announce Java OS X from Oracle via his iPhone. The man's a professional after all. Apple did their part in dropping their own Java version. Reading these comments, it seems likely Oracle would want to step in.
- zmmmmm 16y ago> Apple's CEO doesn't unofficially announce Java OS X from Oracle Where on earth did I imply that? What would be wrong with: "We intend to offer whatever assistance we can to third party JVM providers ensure that Mac users still have an excellent Java runtime available to them" Instead we have a bold and inflammatory headline saying "Java Deprecation" and on information about whether Java will continue to exist on Macs at all in the future.