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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. Re:Rough times by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Its not like Apple's garbage is worth using.

    Yeah, clearly the 50+ million iPhones sold to date is an indication of an inferior product that nobody wants.

    You're a troll and an idiot.

  2. Re:Next SCO? by Arimus · · Score: 0, Troll

    Google's credibility and 'do no evil' motto will be stretched to breaking point as people realise google aren't doing all this purely for their own good - in this day and age he who controls the data is king...

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  3. Re:Rough times by jedidiah · · Score: 1, Troll

    > And as a result there are a ton of things they just can't do unless they jailbreak the phones ...easily clearing out all of my SMS messages being one of them.

    Some of Apple's interfaces can be remarkably poorly thought out actually. While they do
    have some that are better than rest, they also have some that are real stinkers that make
    you just thing WTF.

    A tightly controlled closed product makes you a captive of that WTF.

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