No, oracle dealing more damage to FOSS in one year than microsoft in the past ten is not a 'fact' at all.
Exhibit A: Microsoft heavily sponsored Daryl McBride and company. And with this exhibit A, I'll now judge-dredd style act as jury and judge too, and call microsoft a bunch of FOSS hating litigious asshats. Oracle is a mere grasshopper compared to them. On Aug 17, 5:39 pm, Casper Bang <casper.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
