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Re:Frege: A JVM pure functional programming language in the ... by chc on Friday November 08, 2013 @03:24AM (#6695134)
IIRC Harmony was scuttled primarily because of OpenJDK — Harmony's major corporate sponsor switched its support to OpenJDK, and shortly thereafter the Harmony committee unanimously agreed to put the project in the attic. I don't think Oracle ever actually went after Apache.
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Re:Frege: A JVM pure functional programming language in the ... by lmm on Friday November 08, 2013 @05:07AM (#6695405)
Nope. Oracle denied Harmony a TCK license, meaning they had no license to Java patents (and trademarks). IBM switched to OpenJDK because of this.
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Re:Frege: A JVM pure functional programming language in the ... by icefox on Friday November 08, 2013 @09:46PM (#6700459)
Bingo :)

> A language that has a choice of runtimes from a choice of vendors like Java?

At least historically it wasn't much of a choice and I wouldn't put it past Oracle to continue in this fashion.

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