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I don't exactly get what you mean by "Google torpedoed Sun". Corporate players came into play after Oracle acquired Sun. The fear that Oracle would do the same
by okanat 1y ago
I don't exactly get what you mean by "Google torpedoed Sun".
Corporate players came into play after Oracle acquired Sun. The fear that Oracle would do the same as LibreOffice pushed players like IBM to have their own Java distributions.
Of course Oracle having more support for OpenJDK is not surprising. However, the open nature and existing players already make it easier to fork / replace Java compared to Vmware.
- pjmlp 1y agoSun did not sue Google because they already lacked the money to do so. What Google did with Android, it is hardly any different from Microsoft with J++, only that there the courts had another outcome. Android with a Java subset and Kotlin, is hardly any different outcome than .NET with C#. Corporate players came in, after money was available again, after the acquisition. "James Gosling Triangulation's Interview on Google vs. Sun" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYw3X4RZv6Y&t=3462s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYw3X4RZv6Y&t=3462s "James Gosling on Android and Java" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT__Nrr3PNI&t=6245s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT__Nrr3PNI&t=6245s If Google actually cared about Java, they missed their opportunity to acquire Sun, own Java, do whatever they felt like doing with it for Android, and the rest of the industry, and best of all, they would never had to bother with any lawsuit. Given how much the so called existing players contributed to save Java while Sun was going under, that is whishful thinking.