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Re:Oracle seeks $9.3B for Google’s use of Java in Android by nxzero on Monday March 28, 2016 @04:47PM (#11377266)
Creating a startup to service the CIA is a pretty crap move too; Oracle's launch was largely fueled by creating the database for the CIA in the late 1970s.
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Re:Oracle seeks $9.3B for Google’s use of Java in Android by dogma1138 on Monday March 28, 2016 @05:09PM (#11377405)
You mean like Google(Keyhole/Google Earth) and Facebook which both received funding from the CIA through their investment company In-Q-Tel?

https://www.iqt.org/

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Re:Oracle seeks $9.3B for Google’s use of Java in Android by nxzero on Monday March 28, 2016 @06:27PM (#11377944)
If you're going down that path, might as well reference that the research done by Page & Brin that created Google was funded in part by DARPA.
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