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Oracle's Newest Move To Undermine Android

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-you-are-the-more-badder-one dept.

GMGruman writes "Oracle's decision to shift focus from the Harmony Java open source project to OpenJDK seems innocuous enough — but InfoWorld's Josh Fruhlinger explains it's part of an effort to derail Google's mobile Android OS by gutting the open source project that Android has been driven by. IBM has signed on, apparently in return for getting the Java Community Process reactivated, leaving Google in a bind."

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  1. Check, But Not Mate by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google is full of smart people. I'm sure they saw this move - and the entire assault on mobile Java and derivatives thereof - coming long before Oracle started their anti-Android crusade. I'd be willing to bet that Google has something new 'brewing' for Android 3 that will leave this whole mess behind. You just don't get that many programmers together without a few being paranoid enough to have planned an 'escape module'.

  2. Who is surprised by h4rr4r · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Did this surprise anyone?
    Let us all remember that ORACLE stands for "One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison"

    This is the company that buys out someone else and does not even bother to offer the customers a migration path. Nor any form of support other than letting you fill out a bug report they close as the product is EOL.

  3. Re:Why? by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can someone explain why Oracle cares about the success/failure of Android? I honestly don't know.

    The success of Android means a potential 'licensing fee' from every Android install. They don't care about Android per se, they just want to charge everyone to be able to use it.

  4. No Duh. by Bill_the_Engineer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sun started OpenJDK as the project from which the GPL'ed version of Java would be created.

    It stands to reason, that Sun had planned to discontinue supporting Harmony when OpenJDK was formed.

    Don't mean to spoil a good conspiracy...

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