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>"We should have charged $1 a seat for every Java license" and that would have generated billions in cash annually, perhaps saving the company. "There's a fine
by scj 12y ago
>"We should have charged $1 a seat for every Java license" and that would have generated billions in cash annually, perhaps saving the company. "There's a fine line between doing good for the community and doing too good."
Would Java have been as widely adopted if it cost money to use the language?
- hga 12y agoNo, and James Gosling's experience with the abject market failure of his NeWS because Sun demanded you to pay "$100,000" vs. X's $0 had a lot to do with the Java team insisting on it being free except "for some specialized versions", i.e. mobile.