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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. Robot Cars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Re:Rough times by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Throw away slow Java and use ANSI C scripts, you will get a thousand-fold boost, see the benchmarks:

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    Oh, by the way, Java is 4 times faster than C#.