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Comment by nixon_why69

2 months ago

Google could have bought Sun for less than they wound up paying in a decade of legal fees anyways over Android Java.

Indeed, which is why I am the opinion they had nothing to complain about.

However given their track record designing programming languages, thankfully that did not happen.

  • Actual shout out to Oracle inexplicably moving Java forward a ton while also not strangling it with fees and suing their own customers. Wonder if there's a story of some genius, unsung internal salesman who made that happen.