On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote:
> Everyone is scared of Oracle's ownership of Java (well the trademark and > patents anyway) and wants to own their own language so as to enhance > diversity and divergence. > I really don't think this is the driver for all the JVM based languages we are seeing. Obviously, all the pre-Oracle acquisition languages (Groovy, Scala, Fantom, Gosu) were not created because of Oracle, but I would argue that even those that were created after the acquisition happened just because their respective authors simply want to create a better language than Java. New languages are typically created much more for technical than business reasons. -- Cédric -- 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.
