White House Sides with Oracle, Tells Supreme Court APIs Are Copyrightable

Re:White House Sides with Oracle, Tells Supreme Court APIs A... by discordianfish on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @06:02PM (#9614686)

I think this will cause a lot people to move away from java and ultimately harm Oracle most, causing other companies to not follow their example. Let's just stay away from java, there are plenty of free languages.

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Re:White House Sides with Oracle, Tells Supreme Court APIs A... by iolothebard on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @06:23PM (#9614813)

I'm doing everything I can to kill Oracle at my organization. I work for the State government too. One success story will breed many more is my hope.

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Re:White House Sides with Oracle, Tells Supreme Court APIs A... by prahladyeri on Saturday May 30, 2015 @01:46AM (#9629174)

Java is as much an Oracle product, as water is an Aquafina product or space is a NASA product. So, no, Java has gained enough ubiquity and popularity now so that no one company can monopolize it.

Many open source implementations of Java already exist like Apache Harmony project, the OpenJDK or Red Hat's Iced Tea apart from Oracle's reference implementation.

Coming to the point of there being plenty of languages, I don't think there are any exact substitutes. Low level languages like C/C++ are a bit overkill for application development.

Python is good (I'm a big fan myself), but an interpreter is much slower than a JIT compiled language even on a quad-core. I think we should have python as an option, but that should not be the only language.

The only real replacement (and even a better one) in my opinion is C#. C# is a much evolved language than Java and is also open source (Microsoft has made it so through the MCP).

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Re:White House Sides with Oracle, Tells Supreme Court APIs A... by VaidasC on Thursday May 28, 2015 @05:18AM (#9616895)

I don't understand this panic in people minds.

Java is free to develop with.

Java APIs can be copied and used, with one condition - all APIs from JDK should be used and nothing can be removed. Google failed to comply with this.

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Re:White House Sides with Oracle, Tells Supreme Court APIs A... by datashovel on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @08:04PM (#9615255)

I'm looking forward to seeing if there are any relevant announcements at Google IO over the next few days.

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