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Oracle owns Java and can do whatever it wishes to do with its property. Sun tried a 'open' strategy to turn a profit with Java and it failed, everyone has to
by davidj 16y ago
Oracle owns Java and can do whatever it wishes to do with its property. Sun tried a 'open' strategy to turn a profit with Java and it failed, everyone has to understand that the old ways are out and the new ways are in. Oracle has a fiducial duty to its shareholders to maximize profit. The Apache foundation doesn't have this mandate. If the Apache foundation doesn't agree with what Oracle does with its property,
it can choose not to use it and use a different technology -- or, because Oracle is a publicly traded company, they could buy enough controlling shares and force them to change their actions of the Java language. Alternatively the Apache foundation can move to a country that doesn't allow software patents and implement their own changes.