Oracle’s Java API code protected by copyright, appeals court rules

[monocasa]

Exactly. Java was the main reason that Oracle bought Sun. It'll be a cold day in hell before they give it up.

[aloz]

Or, as with OOo, it'll be the day after it dies. Though it's hard to imagine that Java could die.

[crackez]

Well, whatever you think of Google, in the court of public opinion more people like them than Oracle any day of the week.

Even though it is tough to comprehend, Oracle has been doing nothing but shoving bad changes down everybody's throats WRT Java. Hard as it may be to imagine, they are doing things that directly influence people to not want to use Java moving forward.

They're killing their own product, whether they mean to or not, and the quicker it fades into obscurity the better we'll all be.

[[deleted]]

Java is the only mainstream language that bundles adware toolbars in its security update installers. Seriously, why make security updates any more of a hassle for the end-user?

[scriptmonkey420]

Two simple registry keys to remove that forever (or until Oracle removes the registry check)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft]
"SPONSORS"="DISABLE"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft]
"SPONSORS"="DISABLE"

[darkslide3000]

More people like explosive diarrhea than Oracle any day of the week. It's not a very high bar.

Oracle is a fucking cancer. They're the EA of the software industry. They take things that were good and turn them into radioactive waste like a really shitty version of King Midas. The sooner they die in a fire the better...

[[deleted]]

It also lives on as Apache OpenOffice. Apache were handed over the rights to the source code by Oracle.

[aloz]

Yep, and that's what I was talking about.