I'm suggesting than within 1 year of stewardship, Oracle did more harm to FLOSS than Microsoft did the last 10. Not suggesting Microsoft are saints and that they would not have pursued the same avenue, but facts are facts. And we don't need time travel, just to get rid of stinkin' software patents and the ridiculous powers given to businesses with enough attorneys and destructive ulterior motives.
On Aug 17, 5:08 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <reini...@gmail.com> wrote: > But if we go by which company is nicer / less sue-happy, then Google > clearly made the right choice at the time. The sun of yesteryear is > not the oracle of today. Unless you're suggesting that google should > have invested heavily in time travel tech, of course. > > On Aug 17, 1:39 pm, Casper Bang <casper.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Aug 17, 12:17 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <reini...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > No, if google had gone with C#/Mono, they'd have only a quarter of > > > their current userbase, and what makes you think Microsoft would NOT > > > have sued Google with a bunch of overly broad patents? Microsoft has > > > more at stake than Oracle, and would have a more destructive end- > > > result in mind (killing off android to make room for windows mobile > > > 7). > > > Power corrupts and Microsoft have indeed been abusive in the past, but > > if Google sticked to the Ecma spec I don't see how they could do > > anything against a clean-room implementation like Mono. Hopefully they > > will eventually replace their monkey CEO, but for the time being > > Ellison is the scary one and Ballmer is the one to pity. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
