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   Xerz! :blobcathearttrans: (xerz@fedi.xerz.one)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 21:23:31 JST Xerz! :blobcathearttrans:
   I wonder what the Oracle purchase of Sun was for. They didn't give a shit about Solaris or SPARC, let alone MySQL or Virtualbox. Java is open source and they can't do anything about it as much as they want to, they could not get Google to pay for using it because duh.
   
   So they're left with... an existing customer base with hardly any growth? A RHEL clone for people who hate themselves?
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 21:31:52 JST feld

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     Probably patents that Sun had, especially in hardware
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 21:45:26 JST feld

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     > Java is open source and they can't do anything about it as much as they want to
     
     Owning the language that most of your software is written in is probably quite valuable. OpenJDK couldn't run a lot of software for many years
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 21:46:01 JST feld

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     CPU patents probably let them make threads at Intel
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     Xerz! :blobcathearttrans: (xerz@fedi.xerz.one)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 21:46:04 JST Xerz! :blobcathearttrans:

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     • feld
     @feld personally I like this theory the most :blobcateyes:
     
     ...some evidence would be neat tho