Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Does anyone understand this? Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:06:28 +0200 Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net lHzFuvBhGOee1mICR1VQRAvuE69cksRTEcMq3c6RZ4QLXYmS8= Cancel-Lock: sha1:C2+NZ7L35VrI3EHdqJPkdn8es+Q= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.8.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:32338 On 17.08.2015 18:17, Eternal Hope wrote: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33927848 > > particularly > > ...In its legal papers, Oracle said the ongoing success of Android was > in danger of "destroying" interest in Java. > > Does anyone understand why the success might destroy interest in Java, > I'd have thought it was the other way around ? What they probably mean: it will destroy the interest in the _right_ (as in "one and only") Java because people only see and use the _wrong_ Java (i.e. the on used on Android devices). > ...The "widespread dominance" that Android had achieved in the mobile > phone market had done "irreversible" damage to Java's potential market, > said Oracle. > > Why? I don't get it On a more abstract level I think Oracle is struggling and that's why they turn to lawsuits more and more. The blog post recently about how Oracle intends to deal with people who find vulnerabilities in their products show a similar attitude (the post was removed later). Here is a summary: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/08/oracle_cso_mary_ann_davidson_doesn_t_want_to_hear_about_software_vulnerabilities.html Cheers robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/