Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by bitL on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:45AM
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SUN wasn't very happy about Google using Java without paying anything. IIRC SUN wanted Google to use J2ME and get some modest fees; instead Google decided to reimplement API, pissing off all top guys at SUN who publicly were OK with it (hoping they could negotiate some payment), but internally were boiling.
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by michaelmrose on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:23PM
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I don't think J2ME was suitable for googles usage regardless of price. Unsuitable tech is unsuitable if someone pays YOU 100M
Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by bitL on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:28PM
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Sure, I also found it funny back then, but that was what SUN management was thinking...
Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by Zigurd on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:40PM
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Sun was only incrementally better than Oracle in their approach to Java licensing. They already has one pyrrhic victory over Microsoft that birthed C#, .NET, and Microsoft's own VM. Failing to come to terms with Google means client Java runs on Android, and not even on a Java VM. Way to make your language technology relevant.