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The acquisition officially completed almost 3 years ago. Oracle had plenty of time and money to sue Google in the meantime. They are not poor and can do things
by gojomo 14y ago
The acquisition officially completed almost 3 years ago. Oracle had plenty of time and money to sue Google in the meantime. They are not poor and can do things quickly and competently when they want to; their customers and other Java users shouldn't have to "cut them a little slack" on such bugs.
- frendiversity 14y agoI won't cut them slack on their update process, they should have improved that by now. I don't think being poor or not matters, Java is a gigantic codebase and throwing money at a team doesn't make them code more efficiently. They are doing moderately well at transitioning. I believe Google ripped Java off hard, and I believe both the ripping off Java and the suing for it were bad moves. Google should have licensed or bought Java and Oracle should have sold it or open-sourced it. This is why corporate-owned languages are bad, and why Dalvik isn't really any better in the long run. The best thing, perhaps, would be if HotSpot and OpenJDK were completely community driven all the way down to the release/update/install process, the way IcedTea is.