Other thoughts on Oracle [LWN.net]

Other thoughts on Oracle

Posted Aug 18, 2010 2:22 UTC (Wed) by foom (subscriber, #14868)
In reply to: Other thoughts on Oracle by rahvin
Parent article: A very grumpy editor's thoughts on Oracle

> truely FOSS languages

Errr...Java *is* truly FOSS, it's got a GPLed implementation and everything!

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Other thoughts on Oracle

Posted Aug 18, 2010 10:26 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

And, even more pertinently, a GPLed implementation by one of the main holders of patents over it.

One of the lessons of this story surely has to be the importance of building shared pools of Free Software licensed code, with the maximal possible corporate 'exposure' in terms of contributions (and thus patent grants) - thus innoculating all its users from lawsuits regarding that code, between themselves.