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by tgma 348 days ago
I mean I get Oracle hate and stuff, but remember the great and lovely Sun Microsystems used all tricks in the bag against Microsoft with respect to Java late 90s/early 2000s.

So, is "X abuses IP law" hatred is out of principle or because folks seem to be in love with Sun and Google and hate Oracle and Microsoft.
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mcv 348 days ago
Because Microsoft was trying to takeover and change Java, and Sun actually made Java. How is that in any way the same situation as this?
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tgma 336 days ago
Take over and change? They were adding functionality: embrace and extend. It wasn't like most reasonable people wouldn't agree it was lowercase "javascript".

Seems pretty similar to what's happening today.

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flomo 348 days ago
Specifically, this is why Internet Explorer had "JScript". Microsoft did bad things to Java and lost their trademark license.
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