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by jjawssd 3734 days ago
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"Perhaps the final straw was what Gosling said was Oracle's move to rein him in. indeed they owned Sun and thus Java, so they also owned its creator and his intellectual property, so it was up to Oracle to decide what Gosling or anybody else had to say about Java."

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Java-Creato...

1 comments

But this doesn't really make any sense... Sun was a historically bad steward of Java after 1.5. Oracle has done a lot to advance the language and ecosystem since acquisition.