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Microsoft bought GitHub. It was already tremendously successful.
by Yuioup 5y ago
Microsoft bought GitHub. It was already tremendously successful.
- flyinglizard 5y agoIt keeps prospering under them. Imagine Oracle buying it or something like that.
- DaiPlusPlus 5y ago“Oracle GitHub is being renamed to Oracle JavaZone(TM) to harmonise Oracle’s developer story under the Java(TM) brand.”
- skeeter2020 5y ago"Your JavaZone(tm) account will remain free for individual, non-profit use; all other account owners will be contacted but not until some future date after we trick you into visiting the site and demand punative licensing fees under threat of legal action"
- DaiPlusPlus 5y ago"By uploading computer program code to Oracle's servers, you agree to grant Oracle an unlimited, irrevocable, transferrable license to..."
- vbezhenar 5y agoOracle bought Java and Java is pretty good under its patronage. Better than Sun, at least in last years. Oracle provides RHEL build and it's pretty good. No CentOS drama, it's free and just works. I think that Oracle can execute well.
- DaiPlusPlus 5y agoHow can you completely dismiss the JDK and licensing issues that was started by Oracle?
- skeeter2020 5y agoYou obviously didn't get scooped up in their JDK dragnet. It was essentially a ransomeware demand that cost our company mid-five figures annually.