Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Directors

Re:Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as ... by throwaway98121 on Friday December 28, 2018 @04:12PM (#18779446)

Can you elaborate why?

Edit: reading others’ posts about him in this thread. Okay, wow. Not sure how accurate this information is though.

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Re:Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as ... by ElijahLynn on Friday December 28, 2018 @04:57PM (#18779775)

Well, one thing that got me about him was his acquisition of Sun Microsystems to acquire the patents on Java to sue Google for Android.

Which Sun didn't have any issue with Google about the use of Java for Android. But Larry did. He saw $$$.

Maybe I am wrong about the above but that is my impression of what I have read. Open to corrections.

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Re:Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as ... by cdkee on Friday December 28, 2018 @07:47PM (#18780823)

Sun had the hardware that Larry wanted for his engineered systems. Prior to that there was an announced partnership with HP for that.

The Google lawsuit came later. Remember the purchase was in 2009, when Android was still in its early days in terms of adoption and market share.

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Re:Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as ... by ElijahLynn on Friday December 28, 2018 @08:17PM (#18780991)

Thanks, so it was more of a "oh, look at what we have here" type of thing it sounds like.

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