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Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by dtech on Thursday February 27, 2020 @02:25AM (#22431389)
> Then there'd be two competing smartphone OS's powered by Java.

Probably not, there were iOS/Android competitors until not too long ago but they all died: Windows Phone, webOS, Symbian.

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Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by Apocryphon on Thursday February 27, 2020 @02:28AM (#22431405)
It's funny imagining Oracle trying to undercut Google by competing with a half-baked iOS clone made (or rather, bought) by Sun, though. Perhaps they would've kept the fight just so they can hurt G, as they are currently doing now via litigation.
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