But if we go by which company is nicer / less sue-happy, then Google clearly made the right choice at the time. The sun of yesteryear is not the oracle of today. Unless you're suggesting that google should have invested heavily in time travel tech, of course.
On Aug 17, 1:39 pm, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 17, 12:17 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > No, if google had gone with C#/Mono, they'd have only a quarter of > > their current userbase, and what makes you think Microsoft would NOT > > have sued Google with a bunch of overly broad patents? Microsoft has > > more at stake than Oracle, and would have a more destructive end- > > result in mind (killing off android to make room for windows mobile > > 7). > > Power corrupts and Microsoft have indeed been abusive in the past, but > if Google sticked to the Ecma spec I don't see how they could do > anything against a clean-room implementation like Mono. Hopefully they > will eventually replace their monkey CEO, but for the time being > Ellison is the scary one and Ballmer is the one to pity. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
