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IIRC Harmony was scuttled primarily because of OpenJDK — Harmony's major corporate sponsor switched its support to OpenJDK, and shortly thereafter the Harmony c
by chc 13y ago
IIRC Harmony was scuttled primarily because of OpenJDK — Harmony's major corporate sponsor switched its support to OpenJDK, and shortly thereafter the Harmony committee unanimously agreed to put the project in the attic. I don't think Oracle ever actually went after Apache.
- lmm 13y agoNope. Oracle denied Harmony a TCK license, meaning they had no license to Java patents (and trademarks). IBM switched to OpenJDK because of this.
- icefox 13y agoBingo :) > A language that has a choice of runtimes from a choice of vendors like Java? At least historically it wasn't much of a choice and I wouldn't put it past Oracle to continue in this fashion.