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That's true, and that's why I said almost. But many popular languages have big companies behind, like Microsoft, Google or Apple. And we can find plenty of exam
by severino 8y ago
That's true, and that's why I said almost. But many popular languages have big companies behind, like Microsoft, Google or Apple. And we can find plenty of examples of unethical corporate tactics in all of them. But I think we should not restrict ourselves to languages like python or perl just because of hypothetical assumptions.
- pritambaral 8y ago> plenty of examples of unethical corporate tactics in all of them. I suspect you are not familiar with the exact nature of Oracle's behaviour. MS, Google, or Apple have not gone after their own paying customers (counting Android users as assets, not customers) with legal threats just to extract more money from locked-in customers, nor have they argued in the SCOTUS that APIs are copyrightable. There's "unethical behaviour", which is a wide spectrum, and then there's Oracle, which occupies a distinct area on the spectrum with few neighbours near it.