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Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by gizmo385 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:34PM (#17567937)
Imagine the horrors if Oracle "owned" Linux...
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Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by devmunchies on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:36PM (#17567970)
Then I’m sure Unix or FreeBSD would be more prevalent for servers.
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Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by pjmlp on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:25PM (#17568544)
Well, they did their share of contributions

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/linux/techn...

As for Java, if Google actually cared to get away with their actions, they could have bought Sun.

Surely it would have been cheaper than what they already paied their lawyers.

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Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by deaddodo on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:53PM (#17568775)
Well, they did build JavaOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaOS

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Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by zhengyi13 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:30PM (#17568589)
Well, SCO certainly tried to make that claim.
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