Google Backs Out of JavaOne

snydeq writes "Citing concerns about Oracle's lawsuit against it, Google has backed out of the upcoming JavaOne conference. 'Oracle's recent lawsuit against Google and open source has made it impossible for us to freely share our thoughts about the future of Java and open source generally,' Google's Joshua Bloch said in a blog post. The move may signal eventual fragmentation for Java, with Google conceivably splintering off the Java-like language it uses for Android."

Comments

i came first!

[Anonymous Coward]

suck it nice and clean! XD

!Good

[Warll]

The move may signal eventually fragmentation for Java, with Google conceivably splintering off the Java-like language it uses for Android.

Oracle should use their Java related patents to stop this from happening,

Oh wait...

In the meantime, a rival conference in the works

[bogaboga]

Google should clarify whether its action is related to this rival conference.

Re:Loss of confidence

[SgtChaireBourne]

Novell forked the code because they are putting toxic elements that are unacceptable to the Free and Open Source Software community. The quantity of work is not the same as quality, and goals and licensing are yet another pair of separate factors. Novell is acting as Microshat's proxy to poison the code pool. They weren't allowed to shit in the core project so they made fork and are polluting that. I would say use at your own risk but by you using it, you make computing worse for the rest of us. So don't use anything from Novell.

Re:Loss of confidence

[Anonymous Coward]

Except Java actually *has* spawned litigation. The mono "concerns" are from a bunch of cheetoh-stained losers screaming "Micro$ux!" repeatedly from their mom's basement.