<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 4:27 PM James Knott via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org">talk@gtalug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2021-04-06 4:15 p.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 02:30:14PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote:<br>
>> I prefer Oracle to win. Then, Google would be forced to dump Java and find<br>
>> replacement.<br>
> The result on the entire industry would not be worth it. If you don't<br>
> want them to use java, you don't have to use android.<br>
><br>
> Apple seems to prefer objc instead.<br>
><br>
> I would love for java to not exist at all, but that doesn't appear to<br>
> be happening no matter how much oracle tries to make it unappealing<br>
> to everyone.<br>
><br>
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I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that Sun made Java available and <br>
encouraged it's use. Then when Oracle bought Sun, they tried to rein it <br>
back in. They did the same with OpenOffice. So, this boils down to <br>
Oracle retroactively and unilaterally changing the terms for using Java.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Reverse engineering C[hash:hash] style. Double your money perhaps? <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Russell<br></div></div></div></div></div></div>