Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M
by pulse7 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @05:03PM
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Sun made big money with Java through licensing. Any Java-compatible implementation vendor paid big money to Sun (including IBM, Azure, etc.).
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Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M
by derefr on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:10PM
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Was that really "big money"? How many vendors were there, and how many licenses did each end up paying for?
Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M
by wmf on Thursday November 14, 2019 @01:49AM
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If you wanted to write your own JVM or port the JVM to a different OS you had to pay something like $1M. I wouldn't call it big money because there aren't that many OSes. J2ME phones also paid royalties (which led to the Android lawsuit).
Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M
by pjmlp on Thursday November 14, 2019 @04:16PM
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Plenty through the last 20 something years, some of them still going on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines
Google is the only one that worked around the licensing, and now we have our phones stuck on a mix of Java 6 - 8 subset.