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Re:Oracle wins appeal re Java API copyrightability [pdf] by leccine on Friday May 09, 2014 @10:28PM (#7724254)
You are talking about a stall picture, a moment in time, thinking this will last forever. I am talking about how fast that 0.0001% becomes 50%. If Oracle is patent trolling the Java developer communities the developers and other enterprises are not going to take it easy. We are talking about Google not some random 3 people startup that pays whatever the patent owner is asking for just to save a lawsuit. Java is the the most resourceful ecosystem today, there is no doubt about that. It is ~20 years old Go is 5, and please have a look to this chart:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=Go%2C+Java&l=&relative=1

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Re:Oracle wins appeal re Java API copyrightability [pdf] by garvelmdkb on Saturday May 10, 2014 @10:10AM (#7725443)
It's amazing how the chart shows that go was growing faster than Java years before go was even released....

Virtually none of the 'go' job ads have anything to do with programming.

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Re:Oracle wins appeal re Java API copyrightability [pdf] by leccine on Saturday May 10, 2014 @09:43PM (#7727394)
Well yes there is obviously some clean up work on that side, naming Go as go is a bit unfortunate. I guess my original idea still stands, it is not very smart to judge programming languages using their current popularity. This picture can and will change. You can dig up better evidence than that indeed url.
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