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Re:Defending GCC considered futile by twic on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @04:01PM (#9029864)
> Consider what's happened with Java in recent years.

What has happened with Java in recent years?

One thing i can think of is that the 'official' Sun/Oracle JDK has gone from being closed source, to having a second-class GPL'd derivative, to being built on a GPL'd core. The amount of proprietary closed-source code has gone from 4% to 1% to nothing that doesn't have a free replacement today.

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Re:Defending GCC considered futile by throwaway90999 on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @04:09PM (#9029916)
> What has happened with Java in recent years?

Your feigned ignorance is disingenuous. An enormous legal battle over the platform took place within the past decade.

We are very lucky that the outcome was favorable and that the platform has been able to continue to improve.

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