Well, if Oracle wins their claims, it will be very bad for both Google and Oracle. Now, if Google wins, both will lose just the money spent on the trial.
Why Oracle started that is something I can't understand.
Because the only difference between this and what MSFT did was Google changed the name.
Well, at the time Sun sued Microsoft exactly because the later was using the "Java" name in an inapropriate way. Also, the backslash to Microsoft was due to misleadng publicity.
Or, if you insist in that "hypocrisy" hypotesis, where are all the people complaining that.Net is a copy of Java?
Well, you must release the language for somebody to write a GUI library for it. If the language becomes sucessfull, it will have plenty of native GUI libraries.
there is the argument that Google forked Java simply to avoid paying the licensing fee. IANAL, but that's what the law is there to prevent.
Google rewrote Java to avoid using a proprietary product (that would make Android impossible, independently of the licensing price). The law is there to prevent copying, not writing your own code.
It's crazy that Google didn't settle when the two Larrys were locked in a room for a day last year.
Maybe they are not that crazy, and didn't settle because the Law says that APIs aren't subjected to copyright. But who knows what they were thinking...
Forget about C#. Anybody that isn't concerned about a single entity controling their future is already using it. Nobody will say: "Well, it seems we can't trust Oracle to let us use Java the way we want. We'd better put our future at Microsoft's hand".
At first, people won't change because they've already invested too much on Java. But, slowly the cahnge will come, and will look natural since Java is already being replaced everywhere. The most obvious candidates are Python and Ruby, but some other language can still appear from nowhere and win the race.
Enterprize systems are big, you got that one. But only a tiny minority of them are complex, nearly all enterprize systems are simple.
Now, great coders are able to fit big, simple requirements with small, complex pieces of code. Less code = less bugs and less programming time, that more than compensates the added complexity. Normal coders are able to fit big, simple requirements with big, simple code.
Now, there is a kind of coder that fits big, simple requirements with huge, complex pieces of code. In the old times plenty of those coders wrote in COBOL. Now they are assembling in Java and.Net.
If your investment ends prior to the car becoming profitable, you get none of the profits, even if subsequent sales make the car profitable.
Except that investiment doesn't expire. If you choose to sell your shares back, you'll get your money back and will lose any subsequent profit. It you don't take your money back, you'll get any profit, it doesn't matter it it happens on the same year, or 20 years after you invested.
Nice to remember about Trinity. I used it when Debian switched to KDE4, but the new DE wouldn't work with/home mounted over NFS. (Turns up that is a problem of NFS3, everything works with NFS4.)
It seems to be quite active. They are even adding support for QT4. But I won't change back, as I do like KDE4.
That's what I tought when reading the post. I'm a not native english speaker, and I know one can make some really dumb mistakes when confusing the structure of two languages.
What I can't understand in any way is what language he natively speaks? The way he structures his ideas is very, very weard.
the world is ending on... ummm.. Sometime in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and the beginning of this year, later this year, or maybe 10 to 20 years from now.
There is some kind of stupid people with communication capacity, those are the problem. We call them "media".
You see, somebody does some great research and discover that yes, the sky will fall 20 years from now. A bunch of smart people start to think on what to do. Things are great, they are able to come with a plan and everything, they just need a lot of people to do some easy thing and we a saved. Then they think "how can we send our message to that huge number of people?", and call the media. But the media isn't interested on a news that "The sky will fall 20 yeas from now!", that's not scary enough; thus, they publish that "The sky is falling!" and that is the message that gets to people like you. Then passes 1 year, then 2, then 5 years and nothing happens. People start to doubt that the sky will fall, and refuse to do that simple act that will save them. 20 years latter, the sky falls, and everybody is hurt.
The IPv4 addresses are ending earlier than expected. The people that worked at IPv6 were expecting IPv4 to last until the 2020's. For some definitions of "end", the IPv4 addresses already ended. It is not tomorrow, or next year, or in a decade; it ended last year. For other definitions it is harder to say exactly when it ends, some services are already without new addresses, those will never get any new number, for them it is over; while some other services still have some addresses available. Some continents still have unnalocated addresses. It is likely that 20 years from now there will still be unasigned addresses, but that doesn't change the fact that several devices won't get an IPv4 address anymore.
IPv6 adds needless complexity and simply isn't needed.
Unless you want to do VoIP. Or use some instant mesaging software that doesn't spy on you. Or want to be able to login on more than one computer inside your network. Or you want to run BitTorrent for any reason. Or want to descentralize your network setup... Well, in a couple of seconds I couldn't think in any other reason.
Those fake persons are trying to destabilize governemnts everywhere, and for ages (literaly). The fact that their messages now come through the internet, and not through mail doesn't change that much.
Maybe because that is the frequency that concentrates most of our emited power. Also, It's not a single wave length, but the band of it with the biggest informational content that can be used by electon (or chemistry) based appliances.
It nullifies any attempt to speculate on the Yuan on the Forex... This means that strength of the Yuan is kept artificially low so that exports can remain artificially cheap
No, that means that the people of China will speculate on goods prices, instead of foreigners speculating on the currency value. The result is that inflation eats everything that the weak currency created, just like every time a government decides to mess with exchange rates. (And people get poorer.)
That, of course, does not negate the competitive lead chinese products have due to cheap labor and non-existent polution control.
If they are really rumors, in a free society they'd met a wall of evidence pointing that they are false. But once you start killing the people that say wrong things, people will stop saying anything (why risk?), and such rummors grow.
They are the results of millenia of refinements. But you are the one arguing that the refinements stopped at the XVIII century. Those old units are indeed bad.
The name of the unit "gallon" came from the object named "gallon" that people use to hold liquids (and that happened before English even existed). Old units are that interesting. You know that "litter" was a measure of area?
No, they designed a test to dsiprove the existence of life on Mars. When the results didn't disprove it, they didn't change their publich speechs of "we know of no life on Mars".
Nothing the Viking had could prove the existence of life. (Ok, maybe the mass spectrometer, if their life is surprizingly similar to us and quite numerous)
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Maybe because Google didn't do anything wrong...
But more likely because it is Oracle that is suing them.
Well, if Oracle wins their claims, it will be very bad for both Google and Oracle. Now, if Google wins, both will lose just the money spent on the trial.
Why Oracle started that is something I can't understand.
Well, at the time Sun sued Microsoft exactly because the later was using the "Java" name in an inapropriate way. Also, the backslash to Microsoft was due to misleadng publicity.
Or, if you insist in that "hypocrisy" hypotesis, where are all the people complaining that .Net is a copy of Java?
Well, you must release the language for somebody to write a GUI library for it. If the language becomes sucessfull, it will have plenty of native GUI libraries.
Google rewrote Java to avoid using a proprietary product (that would make Android impossible, independently of the licensing price). The law is there to prevent copying, not writing your own code.
The problem is that Java users don't bring any revenue.
Oracle brought Java, and now are trying to change it into something that fits their business model.
Maybe they are not that crazy, and didn't settle because the Law says that APIs aren't subjected to copyright. But who knows what they were thinking...
Forget about C#. Anybody that isn't concerned about a single entity controling their future is already using it. Nobody will say: "Well, it seems we can't trust Oracle to let us use Java the way we want. We'd better put our future at Microsoft's hand".
At first, people won't change because they've already invested too much on Java. But, slowly the cahnge will come, and will look natural since Java is already being replaced everywhere. The most obvious candidates are Python and Ruby, but some other language can still appear from nowhere and win the race.
Enterprize systems are big, you got that one. But only a tiny minority of them are complex, nearly all enterprize systems are simple.
Now, great coders are able to fit big, simple requirements with small, complex pieces of code. Less code = less bugs and less programming time, that more than compensates the added complexity. Normal coders are able to fit big, simple requirements with big, simple code.
Now, there is a kind of coder that fits big, simple requirements with huge, complex pieces of code. In the old times plenty of those coders wrote in COBOL. Now they are assembling in Java and .Net.
"Chance favours the prepared mind", as Pasteur once said.
In the case of Gates and Ballmer, they were prepared with a hand full of contact and money gathering tricks.
Except that investiment doesn't expire. If you choose to sell your shares back, you'll get your money back and will lose any subsequent profit. It you don't take your money back, you'll get any profit, it doesn't matter it it happens on the same year, or 20 years after you invested.
Nice to remember about Trinity. I used it when Debian switched to KDE4, but the new DE wouldn't work with /home mounted over NFS. (Turns up that is a problem of NFS3, everything works with NFS4.)
It seems to be quite active. They are even adding support for QT4. But I won't change back, as I do like KDE4.
"Simplicity" is just a matter of someone with a big marketing budget making a good selection of software and distributing it.
Flexibility only inteferes because it gives more chances for getting good software at the cost of more labor selecting it.
That's what I tought when reading the post. I'm a not native english speaker, and I know one can make some really dumb mistakes when confusing the structure of two languages.
What I can't understand in any way is what language he natively speaks? The way he structures his ideas is very, very weard.
There is some kind of stupid people with communication capacity, those are the problem. We call them "media".
You see, somebody does some great research and discover that yes, the sky will fall 20 years from now. A bunch of smart people start to think on what to do. Things are great, they are able to come with a plan and everything, they just need a lot of people to do some easy thing and we a saved. Then they think "how can we send our message to that huge number of people?", and call the media. But the media isn't interested on a news that "The sky will fall 20 yeas from now!", that's not scary enough; thus, they publish that "The sky is falling!" and that is the message that gets to people like you. Then passes 1 year, then 2, then 5 years and nothing happens. People start to doubt that the sky will fall, and refuse to do that simple act that will save them. 20 years latter, the sky falls, and everybody is hurt.
The IPv4 addresses are ending earlier than expected. The people that worked at IPv6 were expecting IPv4 to last until the 2020's. For some definitions of "end", the IPv4 addresses already ended. It is not tomorrow, or next year, or in a decade; it ended last year. For other definitions it is harder to say exactly when it ends, some services are already without new addresses, those will never get any new number, for them it is over; while some other services still have some addresses available. Some continents still have unnalocated addresses. It is likely that 20 years from now there will still be unasigned addresses, but that doesn't change the fact that several devices won't get an IPv4 address anymore.
Unless you want to do VoIP. Or use some instant mesaging software that doesn't spy on you. Or want to be able to login on more than one computer inside your network. Or you want to run BitTorrent for any reason. Or want to descentralize your network setup... Well, in a couple of seconds I couldn't think in any other reason.
Those fake persons are trying to destabilize governemnts everywhere, and for ages (literaly). The fact that their messages now come through the internet, and not through mail doesn't change that much.
Maybe because that is the frequency that concentrates most of our emited power. Also, It's not a single wave length, but the band of it with the biggest informational content that can be used by electon (or chemistry) based appliances.
No, that means that the people of China will speculate on goods prices, instead of foreigners speculating on the currency value. The result is that inflation eats everything that the weak currency created, just like every time a government decides to mess with exchange rates. (And people get poorer.)
That, of course, does not negate the competitive lead chinese products have due to cheap labor and non-existent polution control.
If they are really rumors, in a free society they'd met a wall of evidence pointing that they are false. But once you start killing the people that say wrong things, people will stop saying anything (why risk?), and such rummors grow.
That is, again, if they are really just rumors.
They are the results of millenia of refinements. But you are the one arguing that the refinements stopped at the XVIII century. Those old units are indeed bad.
The name of the unit "gallon" came from the object named "gallon" that people use to hold liquids (and that happened before English even existed). Old units are that interesting. You know that "litter" was a measure of area?
No, they designed a test to dsiprove the existence of life on Mars. When the results didn't disprove it, they didn't change their publich speechs of "we know of no life on Mars".
Nothing the Viking had could prove the existence of life. (Ok, maybe the mass spectrometer, if their life is surprizingly similar to us and quite numerous)
They must get energy from something. Besides the perclorets, you cited most of the candidates.
I don't know. But do Americans have their own beer? Don't they all drink Budwiser?