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> they are the ones that open-sourced the platform completely While I agree with the bullshit claim, Sun was the company to open source Java. Which itself goes
by josefx 4y ago
> they are the ones that open-sourced the platform completely
While I agree with the bullshit claim, Sun was the company to open source Java. Which itself goes back to IBM blocking the community process in order to force an Apache licensed Java implementation, Sun releasing the OpenJDK made most people happy without killing its embedded cash cow.
- kaba0 4y agocompletely is the important word — there were plenty of paid-only tools back then that were part of OracleJDK but not OpenJDK. Oracle made them open-source.
- jpgvm 4y agoYeah I think Oracle doesn't get the credit they deserve for OSS-ing stuff like the Java Flight Recorder. Of course their continued work on the big JVM features and GraalVM are huge for the community too.