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I think Oracle is looking at cutting open the goose | 314 comments | Create New Account

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I think Oracle is looking at cutting open the goose

Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 05 2012 @ 08:36 PM EDT

Of course this is standard Oracle operating procedure.

Oracle exists to make Larry Ellison money. Anything that doesn't make Larry
Ellison money must therefore be costing Larry Ellison money and therefore must
either be monitized or eliminated (like Open Office).

Right now Oracle is trying to monitize Java by suing Google. If successful,
other lawsuits will probably follow along with licensing fees for other users
(which of course will kill Java as a viable language).

If the suit against Google is unsuccesful they'll probably thrash around for a
while trying to find some other way to monitize Java before spinning it off to
some open source group, maybe the Apache Foundation.

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