Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS
by pjmlp on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @12:05PM
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Nothing to do from the point of view of the headaches that brings to those of us that care about Java.
And everything to do regarding being a fork on the Java ecosystem, and I side with Oracle.
It remains to be seen if Brillo or Fuchsia will have any relevance on the market, even when coming from Google.
Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS
by vegabook on Friday September 30, 2016 @04:02PM
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and I'm not a java lover as you can tell, but I can super-appreciate that for java guys, having some fork that tries to be java-not-java and confuses the ecosystem, is a pain in the butt. Be java fully committed and move it forward, or leave java well alone. Don't sit there and create a java version of the Python 2/3 mess that screws everyting up. I can totally appreciate that. Well put.
Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS
by jsight on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @11:23AM
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The lawsuit was not about the VM.
Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS
by vegabook on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @11:33AM
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Look. The gist of the comment is that Android forces you to use java, or at the very least, a java API. You can dance around semantics as much as you like, but it will not change the fact that, unlike Linux, Android is intricately interlinked with java.
Moreover, it's not Linux if you have to use a Java API to do anything useful.