Re:Apache loses Java showdown vote to Oracle
by rbanffy on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @03:02AM
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> They killed OpenSSO, they killed Open Office, the killed Open Solaris, They where contractually bound to not kill MySQL
And you know the beauty of it? Then can't kill neither Open Office nor MySQL. When the time comes, I just have to move to a fork. LibreOffice is on RC-stage now and I am curious about Drizzle and the other forks of MySQL.
> because they don't want JDKs to exist that did not pay Oracle
Probably. What they would really hate would be not to get some money out of every feature phone out there. Their thing is with mobile and J2ME licensing means a lot of money.
> They will make the early 90's Microsoft look like a benevolent democracy
And you know the beauty of it? Then can't kill neither Open Office nor MySQL. When the time comes, I just have to move to a fork. LibreOffice is on RC-stage now and I am curious about Drizzle and the other forks of MySQL.
> because they don't want JDKs to exist that did not pay Oracle
Probably. What they would really hate would be not to get some money out of every feature phone out there. Their thing is with mobile and J2ME licensing means a lot of money.
> They will make the early 90's Microsoft look like a benevolent democracy
Don't get me started on that...