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Authored by: DannyB on Tuesday, April 17 2012 @ 05:30 PM EDT |
Yes it would. And I've thought about that when this mess started.
Sadly, a *lot* of people depend on Java. It is huge in the enterprise. The
COBOL of the 21st century. It isn't going away anytime soon. Of course, it's
open source. But that wouldn't stop Oracle from trying to destroy it.
Interestingly, IBM is a big user of Java and might have something to say about
that, just as they are a big user of Linux and had something to say about SCO.
Oracle has acted like a bull in a china shop. They don't get open source. They
lost the Hudson community which forked to Jenkins. They lost the OpenOffice.org
community which forked to LibreOffice. Oracle might have already learned
something from these two incidents. After all, Oracle finally threw in the
towel on OpenOffice.org after it couldn't get the community back, and donated
the project to the Apache foundation out of spite (incompatible licenses).
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