When Apple releases Swift under Apache 2.0, which includes an explicit, unequivocal patent license, it inspires a lot more confidence than all the shenanigans O

When Apple releases Swift under Apache 2.0, which includes an explicit, unequivocal patent license, it inspires a lot more confidence than all the shenanigans Oracle has been pulling with GPL2. Whom Apple cares about is less important than how they behave. With Swift, they're buying goodwill in the FOSS community. Oracle, on the other hand, keeps burning bridges.