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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. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    suck it GNAA bitches!

  2. Oracle is Evil, C# > Java by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Now that Oracle owns Java, Micorosoft's baby, C# looks alot better.

    C# is better than Java anyway, so maybe Oracle's destruction of Java is a blessing in disguise.

  3. Re:Oracle is Evil, C# Java by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Poison the well"? Please. At its worst, it's more like a fart in the bazaar. Nobody's going to notice it over the smell of camel shit, spoiling hummus, and body odor emanating from the unwashed neckbeards.

  4. Re:Oracle is Evil, C# Java by modmans2ndcoming · · Score: 0, Troll

    You are a fuckign Liar.

    Google "Microsoft Promises Not to Sue Mono"

  5. Who cares about Java?? by scurvyj · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh ffs, WHO CARES!!!!!!!! Its JAVA.

    Let Oracle waste their time on a failed proof-of-concept language that is being steadily *removed* from everything and everywhere.

    Python won, deal with it Javheads.