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Then Google should pay Oracle for using the Java API :')

• josefx 6y ago
  Did Google ask over Oracle engineers for job interviews just to pick their brains on Java?
• ocdtrekkie 6y ago
  Indeed. It's pretty funny when people pick their sides based on what companies are involved. They basically loosely implemented AppGet's API. AppGet, being permissively-licensed and open source, could've simply been forked or what-have-you anyways. There's nothing Keivan was actually holding back they had to interview him to get. That being said, I think it's likely a loss for Microsoft: Keivan obviously had thoughts they considered of value, and he probably would've been a solid hire. The PR hit from this probably costs them more than a year's salary for an engineer, so they probably should've considered the risk here. The fact that Microsoft engaged in a "dick move" is obvious, and for what? Something that feels like a tack-on side project by a couple of Microsoft engineers, that'll probably never graduate to mainstream adoption?