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Re:Microsoft Joins the Eclipse Foundation by bragh on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @10:35AM (#11245824)
No, it gets brought up because the after effects of that philosophy are still felt even today.
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Re:Microsoft Joins the Eclipse Foundation by Delmania on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @10:44AM (#11245888)
Got a few examples to bring up? Because I'm not seeing how Java suffered. If anything, Oracle is a bigger threat to Java than MS.
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Re:Microsoft Joins the Eclipse Foundation by bragh on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @05:26AM (#11252071)
2 examples that affect me every week when serving SMB clients:

- old IE installs

- PDF printing functionality not included in older versions of Office and Windows

More experienced people/sysadmins can probably bring out lot more issues. And I totally agree with you that Java didn't suffer in the end, but how many lawyer hours were spent on stuff that shouldn't have been an issue in the first place?

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