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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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