Re:Java Is Still Free
by tabtab on Monday September 17, 2018 @06:51PM
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Every language that catches on in the market builds up "cruft" over time. Popularity has a down-side as features are tacked on to keep up with the e-joneses.
But a bigger problem is that Oracle is hell-bent on finding ways to sue profits out of ANY Java user, per (ongoing) API fiasco. Who wants to risk being a target of lawsuit greed? True, Microsoft could start doing the same with Dot-Net languages and API's, but so far they are (mostly) behaved. I'll side with the sleeping sharks over the circling sharks.
Re:Java Is Still Free
by tabtab on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @01:31PM
(#18017326)
Either it uses the same API interfaces as Oracle's version, in which case it's a lawsuit risk, OR it has different API interfaces, making actual code incompatible with that written for the Oracle version: a de-facto fork.
But a bigger problem is that Oracle is hell-bent on finding ways to sue profits out of ANY Java user, per (ongoing) API fiasco. Who wants to risk being a target of lawsuit greed? True, Microsoft could start doing the same with Dot-Net languages and API's, but so far they are (mostly) behaved. I'll side with the sleeping sharks over the circling sharks.