> the next excuse for not updating Android Java to latest versions.
The only two companies that ever had issues with Java owners were Microsoft thanks to J++ and Google with its Android Java.
Lots of companies have produced their own Java version, without any issue.
Sad that things have gone this way and Google isn't being hardly punished for what they did to Java ecosystem with their special flavoured Java and by giving Sun's fatal blow.
Thankfully they never thought of buying Sun to own Java, as it would have been yet another project on their graveyard, looking to how they handle it on Android.
But yeah lets not get distracted and join the Oracle hate mob.
While the Apache project is not a company, it definitely had issues with Sun over Apache Harmony's Java certification (I'm not confirming or denying that this was part of IBM's proxy wars with Sun).
Incidentally, Apache Harmony is what Google used to jumpstart not-officially-Java compatibility with Android.
> Sad that things have gone this way and Google isn't being hardly punished for what they did to Java ecosystem with their special flavoured Java and by giving Sun's fatal blow.
Speaking of "special flavoured Java" - what Google did with Android was an improvement over the fragmented mess that was Java ME. Good God, I remember Sun-approved, vendor-specific extension, so Samsung/Nokia/Sony-Ericsson each had its own API for the same functionality - e.g. checking for connectivity. Additionally, the API could be subtly different for each phone model from the same vendor. You either had to create different build pipelines (1 per vendor, with overlays/facades), or do an ungodly amount of reflection in your runtime logic. So much for "Write Once". Sun was never interested in licensing Java SE on mobile, I don't see how Google could have killed them when they weren't even competing on "your phone as a full-blown computer"
I loved Sun Microsystems; they were idealistic, geeky, and made very cool, albeit expensive gear. I suspect their idealism made them hop onto the open source bandwagon without due consideration for long-term sustainability. They open-sourced the OS (OpenSolaris), open sourced the application stack (Java, perhaps reluctantly), while their server hardware was being disrupted by x86; how were they going to make money? They were not long of this world - Linux, commodity x86 and open source Java Application Servers killed Sun. IBM was in a similar place at the time, and they shifted focus to consulting.
> But yeah lets not get distracted and join the Oracle hate mob.
I've been part of that mob for a long time, fuck Oracle for how they treated Gosling, how they handled the JCP, and mishandled OpenOffice (until it blew up in their face). I didn't care for MySQL, but it seems to have been ok so far.
