Re:Oracle wants $9.3B for Google’s use of Java in Android
by V-2 on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @12:08PM
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And Google briefly considered adopting C# instead of Java back in the day. As a .NET dev turned Android dev (and not liking Java 6 one bit) I regret they didn't go down that path...
In another 2005 e-mail admitted as evidence by Oracle, Rubin tells Google co-founder Larry Page: “If Sun doesn’t want to work with us, we have two options: 1) Abandon our work and adopt MSFT CLR VM and C# language, or 2) Do Java anyway and defend our decision, perhaps making enemies along the way.”
http://www.wired.com/2012/04/android-google-oracle/
In another 2005 e-mail admitted as evidence by Oracle, Rubin tells Google co-founder Larry Page: “If Sun doesn’t want to work with us, we have two options: 1) Abandon our work and adopt MSFT CLR VM and C# language, or 2) Do Java anyway and defend our decision, perhaps making enemies along the way.”