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Father of Java, James Gosling Unloads
javab0y writes "The folks over at basementcoders did a podcast with James Gosling, The Father of Java, last week at a coffee shop in San Francisco during the JavaOne conference. In a raw and no-holds-barred interview, James let loose on Oracle, the Google Lawsuit, and his experience with IBM. You know its going to be good when he starts out saying, 'I eventually graduated in '83. Went to work for IBM which is, you know, is within the top 10 of my stupidest career decisions I've made.' The podcast was fully transcribed."
No, he invented Java, not Windows.
Publicly traded and un-kosher doesn't mean fuck-all when there's big money at stake and lawyers and accountants involved. Look at what has happened over the last 10 years. Weren't Enron, WorldCom, Bear Stearns, et al. publicly traded companies?
Non sequitur + red herring. Apply some reading comprehension man.
I didn't say that un-kosher agreements cannot happen with publicly traded companies. What I'm saying is that legal settlements of the type being described here (paying royalties) aren't typically done under the table. Why would they? How could they?
Nothing that you have said here (though being true) apply to the argument at hand, nor to the specific litigation/settlements between Sun and MS being described here.
Is it really that fucking hard to display some sort of reading comprehension?