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| Date | 2011-11-03 20:48 -0400 |
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| From | Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? |
| References | (2 earlier) <j8qkqm$pvh$1@news.albasani.net> <j8qqqm$41c$1@speranza.aioe.org> <j8rlqc$19m$1@news.albasani.net> <4eb1bef4$0$286$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <j8te92$3ms$1@news.albasani.net> |
| Message-ID | <4eb3365e$0$290$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> (permalink) |
| Organization | SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source |
On 11/3/2011 3:01 AM, BGB wrote: > On 11/2/2011 3:06 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> On 11/2/2011 10:58 AM, BGB wrote: >>> On 11/2/2011 12:17 AM, Cindy wrote: >>>> On 02/11/2011 1:35 AM, BGB wrote: >>>>> On 11/1/2011 7:18 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >>>>>> On 10/28/2011 4:29 PM, jebblue wrote: >>>>>>> With Oracle on one side suing Google over Android >>>>>>> and on the other cooing about how many phones >>>>>>> run Java; I'm wondering if it might be worth it >>>>>>> to put my ideological views about Microsoft aside >>>>>>> and consider going back to .Net. >>>>>> >>>>>> Why should the question whether Google infringed on >>>>>> Oracle copyright or patents affect your choice of >>>>>> programming language? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> maybe because it asserts that Java is not a free/open technology, >>>>> and is >>>>> essentially a proprietary product owned by Oracle?... >>>>> >>>>> granted, .NET has the same basic issue (it is owned by MS, ...). >>>> >>>> .NET is much worse. Anyone can write a conforming Java implementation >>>> that people can use and anyone else can code for it, without permission >>>> from Oracle. With OpenJDK, there is a complete open source conforming >>>> implementation, in particular. The one restriction I'm aware of is that >>>> you can't actually call it "Java" unless it passes certain tests or >>>> else >>>> you're looking at a trademark infringement lawsuit, whereas you could, >>>> say, write a Lisp interpreter and call it C if you wanted to. >>>> >>> >>> yeah. however, one can't really make subsets or add extensions, which is >>> lame. >> >> You can not make a subset and call it Java. But you can call >> it something else. >> >> SUN/Oracle has not sued Google over Android being a subset >> or MS over J# being a subset. >> > > fair enough, but generally one thinks of "Java" as the generic name, but > technically this is the brand-name, and there is no good name for > "basically the core Java language but an incomplete/subset implementation". I guess it could be considered an annoyance. But if that is ones biggest problem, then ... Arne
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Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2011-10-28 15:16 -0700
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-11-02 07:05 -0300
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-02 22:46 -0400
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-01 22:18 -0400
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-01 22:35 -0700
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Cindy <c.thurston@frell.okb.uwa.edu> - 2011-11-02 03:17 -0400
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-02 07:58 -0700
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-02 18:06 -0400
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-03 00:01 -0700
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-03 20:48 -0400
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-03 20:52 -0400
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-09 07:21 -0700
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Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-09 22:48 -0700
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Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-03 00:10 -0700
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Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-02 15:01 -0700
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-02 18:18 -0400
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-02 18:20 -0400
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-02 22:30 -0700
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-03 21:30 -0400
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-03 21:40 -0400
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-01 23:42 -0700
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-02 10:22 -0700
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-02 18:02 -0400
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-02 20:10 -0700
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-03 20:45 -0400
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-09 09:56 -0700
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-02 18:01 -0400
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-02 15:26 -0700
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-02 18:35 -0400
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-02 20:53 -0700
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-03 21:45 -0400
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-11-04 05:50 -0300
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-04 10:39 -0700
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-04 17:38 -0400
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-11-04 18:47 -0300
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-09 10:11 -0700
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-09 20:24 -0500
Re: back to .Net? lesser of two evils? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-09 23:42 -0700
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