On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 4:27 PM James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
> On 2021-04-06 4:15 p.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 02:30:14PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote: > >> I prefer Oracle to win. Then, Google would be forced to dump Java and > find > >> replacement. > > The result on the entire industry would not be worth it. If you don't > > want them to use java, you don't have to use android. > > > > Apple seems to prefer objc instead. > > > > I would love for java to not exist at all, but that doesn't appear to > > be happening no matter how much oracle tries to make it unappealing > > to everyone. > > > > I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that Sun made Java available and > encouraged it's use. Then when Oracle bought Sun, they tried to rein it > back in. They did the same with OpenOffice. So, this boils down to > Oracle retroactively and unilaterally changing the terms for using Java. > Reverse engineering C[hash:hash] style. Double your money perhaps? > > --- > Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- Russell
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