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Authored by: DannyB on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 03:25 PM EDT |
> all writing Java code and now had the skills to
> make things for Sun's desktop Java platform too.
Don't forget Java on the server.
Java on the server is mostly silent and unnoticed by those who don't use it, but
it's way bigger than Java on the desktop. It's been called, and imo rightly so,
the cobol of the 21st century.
The only problem is if there will be Java programmers to fix the Y10K problem.
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Authored by: crs17 on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 10:48 PM EDT |
I think there is an angle to this case that many of us are missing. Forget
Oracle for the moment. Back when it was Sun negotiating with Google, one of the
points of contention was the GPL. Java is GPLed. Google wanted a more
controllable OpenSource license. Sun stood up for the GPL and Google went
around it by reimplementing Java as Davlik.
That sort of a move around the GPL is probably legal but not in the spirit of
the license. Within the normal pro-GPL views of the majority on groklaw, that
should put Sun on the more supportable side of the dispute.
This of course is of purely historical interest because when Oracle bought the
assets and claims of Sun they totally changed the direction of the battle. Now
no one is fighting for GPL and the issue is the defense of open source.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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