Martin

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Dec 31, 2000
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icεmαή;1986337 said:
Now that Oracle has acquired Sun, how long before some part of Java becomes proprietary?
It's more complicated than that. Sun finally freed Java in 2007 (I think) and it's now Free Software (tm). Well not entirely, because some very rarely used bits of the standard library have to be rewritten because the original vendor went bust or something. But Java is also a standard and there are a dozen other projects that implement the compiler or parts of the libraries.

In principle they could lock it up but I doubt that would pan out cause people would just fork and tell Oracle "we're doing our own Java, we don't care about your proprietary bs". So this would render Oracle marginalized.
 

icemaη

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It's more complicated than that. Sun finally freed Java in 2007 (I think) and it's now Free Software (tm). Well not entirely, because some very rarely used bits of the standard library have to be rewritten because the original vendor went bust or something. But Java is also a standard and there are a dozen other projects that implement the compiler or parts of the libraries.

In principle they could lock it up but I doubt that would pan out cause people would just fork and tell Oracle "we're doing our own Java, we don't care about your proprietary bs". So this would render Oracle marginalized.
Oracle have acquired 5 companies in the past 6 months... The pace with which they are acquiring companies and their products is crazy...

It's working now.

Btw, just got my Sennheiser earphones delivered! they're awesome.
Which model? how much? and where do you do your online shopping?
 

Martin

Senior Member
Dec 31, 2000
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icεmαή;1986352 said:
Oracle have acquired 5 companies in the past 6 months... The pace with which they are acquiring companies and their products is crazy...
Sun made a lot of stupid mistakes over the years. One of them was clinging to Solaris and trying to pretend like Linux doesn't exist. Which is idiotic because noone wants Solaris and companies do want Linux instead. It's more modern, it's more well known, and it's a lot more flexible rather than being tied to Sun's legacy.

As for Oracle, they're basically unknown to consumers. That's how boring and corporate they are. They are the definition of enterprise, never made a product any consumer would want. I have nothing against them, but it just seems like the most depressing place to be.
 

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