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Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first time (www.theregister.com)

submitted 5 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] paf0@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When have they ever sued someone for using .NET?

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They could though! Microsoft has a long history of "embrace, extend, extinguish"!

You may be willing to put your company at risk because you trust Microsoft but I'm not going to.

[–] paf0@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Feel free to do you, I have told you this already. Seeing you're unable to drop the conversation, when did Microsoft ever sue someone for using C#? I trust Microsoft far more than Oracle (reasons detailed in another comment). However, I do not run Microsoft software at my company at this time, other things work better for what I need.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

when did Microsoft ever sue someone for using C#?

When has Oracle sued somebody for using OpenJDK?

[–] paf0@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Give them a few years to change the rules. If their prior love of lawsuits is any indication they will do so soon.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Same with Microsoft. The company harvesting personal information to feed to an AI.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Do you see?? Do you see yet that you're just now blindly defending a company that has been so anti-open source in its past? A company that has been found guilty of abusing a monopoly? Yet you're defending them over another company that has also done terrible things??

You're approach is so laughably black & white with no nuance that you can't even see that I'm mocking it by attacking Microsoft with your same terrible logic.

[–] paf0@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, these are different situations. One openly sued the user's of their language, the other did not.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

You don't even understand what they sued over. 🤣