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Apache Declares War On Oracle Over Java

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the pew-pew-pew dept.

jfruhlinger writes "The Apache Software Foundation, feeling increasingly marginalized as Oracle asserts its control over the Java platform, is fighting back, trying to rally fellow members of the Java Community Process to block the next version of the language if Oracle doesn't make it available under an open license amenable to Apache. Last month's Oracle-IBM pact was a blow against the ASF, which had worked with IBM in the past, but it appears that Apache isn't giving up the fight."

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  1. Nokia went for Python by accessbob · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nokia went for Python on Maemo. Looks like they knew what they were doing.

  2. It's a trap by rsborg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mono is a trap, and solely exists at Microsoft's pleasure. Once MS decides the want to kill it, out go the patent infringement lawsuits and anyone using Mono is on shaky ground unless they donate to Microsoft's coffers.

    The fact that it hasn't happened yet is no insurance. Copyright/left is one thing, patents are another and I don't trust Microsoft.

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    1. Re:It's a trap by Requiem18th · · Score: 5, Insightful

      How to break your legally binding promises -- the legal way:

      1. Never outright license.
      2. Only promise not to sue...
      2.1. Over patents you control.
      3. Sell patents to patent troll and/or puppet company.
      3.1. Voilà you no longer control the patents
      4. Set us up the patent bomb.
      5. Profit

      There not even a fucking mystery "????" here.

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  3. Re:Unsurprising by mark72005 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There should be a top ten list of rising stars among evil companies.

    (But who would hold slots #2-10?)

  4. Dramatic fits the context of this article by pizzach · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Most people never thought Java would become a hot potato to be careful with. No one thought that Oracle would be going after people over patents. Sun put Java under the GPL2.

    Can you tell me how Mono is more safe being under the GPL/LGPL/MIT when it is using tech directly from a company that is in many ways a direct competitor and has outwardly stated it thinks of open source as "communism"? Microsoft does have patents on specific things used in Mono. Mono is also under the GPL2. Coincidence? I think not.

    It's called a can of worms. It's just we have a lot of slashdotters who refuse to believe it now for whatever reason.

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