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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."
Yeah, Sun bought Dakota Scientific Software back in the 90's to get their high speed math libraries. They take number crunching pretty seriously there.
I'll answer my own question: http://media.techtarget.com/TheServerSideCOM/downloads/James_Gosling_Interview.mp3
I was having a very animated conversation with him about testing at an OOPSLA a few years ago. I'd never seen a picture of him, and just thought he was another generic attendee. I heard someone walking by say something like "OMG it's James Gosling", and I got completely flustered. Stupid, but it happened. It shouldn't; he was very friendly and approachable. I have a lot of respect for him letting people know why he thinks he was dicked around by Oracle.
He's full of shit. Microsoft paid Sun because MS had their own Java implementation, not (from anywhere I can find) because Microsoft's CLR infringed any Java technology patents.
In 2004 Microsoft and Sun settled an anti-trust and patent suit: Microsoft will pay Sun $700 million to resolve antitrust issues and $900 million to resolve patent issues, the companies said. The companies will pay royalties to use each other's technology; Microsoft is paying $350 million now...
http://news.cnet.com/Sun-settles-with-Microsoft,-announces-layoffs/2100-1014_3-5183848.html
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/apr04/04-02sunagreementpr.mspx
I mean, yeah, what the fuck would James Gosling know, compared to you, eh?