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Re:Oracle Lays Off Java Mission Control Team After Open-Sour... by geodel on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @03:29PM (#17250270)
IBM supported Apache Harmony which Oracle forced to shutdown. Google used harmony and they are still in legal quagmire.
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Re:Oracle Lays Off Java Mission Control Team After Open-Sour... by pjmlp on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @03:41PM (#17250388)
If Google had given a penny to Sun for each Android device, Sun would still be around.
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Re:Oracle Lays Off Java Mission Control Team After Open-Sour... by 0x7f800000 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:22PM (#17253005)
If companies had to give a penny to Sun for every device which used Java, nothing would be written in Java.
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Re:Oracle Lays Off Java Mission Control Team After Open-Sour... by pjmlp on Thursday June 07, 2018 @02:19AM (#17253710)
Google is the only company that refused to do it, trying to find a workaround around Java licensing.

So yeah, companies were paying much more than pennies to Sun, until Google came around and offered them a (free beer) Java fork, thus torpedoing Sun profits regarding Java.

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Re:Oracle Lays Off Java Mission Control Team After Open-Sour... by geodel on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @04:07PM (#17250619)
I thought Sun was getting enough pennies on their J2ME thing. Wasn't that enough? Many claim here that it was a great platform and definitely better than Android.
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Re:Oracle Lays Off Java Mission Control Team After Open-Sour... by pjmlp on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @04:19PM (#17250740)
Not after Google torpedo Sun by giving away for free a rip-off implementation, which OEMs jumped into instead of keeping to give pennies to Sun.
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