Apache Declares War On Oracle Over Java

jfruhlinger writes "The Apache Software Foundation, feeling increasingly marginalized as Oracle asserts its control over the Java platform, is fighting back, trying to rally fellow members of the Java Community Process to block the next version of the language if Oracle doesn't make it available under an open license amenable to Apache. Last month's Oracle-IBM pact was a blow against the ASF, which had worked with IBM in the past, but it appears that Apache isn't giving up the fight."

Finally

[Yvan256]

Now we know who launched that missile [slashdot.org]!

Re:Finally

[Anonymous Coward]

Was it a tomahawk?

" Apache Declares War On Oracle Over Java"

[RevWaldo]

Injuns, soothsayers, and volcanoes? Sounds like one hella cool game! When'll the demo be available?

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The Oracle at Delphi, Indigenous Tribes, Coffee

[Oxford_Comma_Lover]

> Apache Declares War On Oracle Over Java

Sometimes it seems like the world hasn't changed much in the last two thousand years.

Re:The Oracle at Delphi, Indigenous Tribe, Islands

[Anonymous Coward]

FTFY.

The Apache Indian in North America would go to war with the Athenian Oracle at Delphi over the island of Java in the South Pacific.

No WaY!

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Re:Why be surprised?

[Yvan256]

Oracle: I'd ask you to sit down, but, you're not going to anyway. And don't worry about that language.
Apache: What language?
[Apache turns to look for a language, and as he does, he knocks Java, which shatters on the floor.]
Oracle: That language.
Apache: I'm sorry--
Oracle: I said don't worry about it. I'll get one of my intern to fix it.
Apache: How did you know?
Oracle: Ohh, what's really going to bake you're noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?

I was about to say

[blair1q]

I was about to say "how the hell is Sun still in business?" for about the thousandth time.

Then I remembered...

Re:Why be surprised?

[blair1q]

Bruce Almighty?

Re:The Oracle at Delphi, Indigenous Tribe, Islands

[H0p313ss]

The Apache Indian in North America would go to war with the Athenian Oracle at Delphi over the island of Java in the South Pacific.

Sounds like a game of FreeCiv

Apple can afford to buy Oracle

[Anonymous Coward]

...and put Java and MySQL back into open source - PERMANENTLY!

Good job, Oracle

[Arancaytar]

- Apache Software Foundation: Check
- OpenOffice.org/Open Document Foundation: Check
- MySQL: Check

At this rate, you'll have pissed off the entire world of free software before the year is over. Maybe go for Linux next. Or the Mozilla Foundation, but I don't remember if Sun was involved there in a major way.

Re:The Oracle at Delphi, Indigenous Tribe, Islands

[sznupi]

Sounds fine, as long as galleons will lose the ability to sink nuclear submarines.

Re:Unsurprising

[Gazzonyx]

There should be a top ten list of rising stars among evil companies. (But who would hold slots #2-10?)

Oracle.

Re:It's a trap

[The End Of Days]

That is a common mistake caused by all those attorneys who refer to both as "Intellectual Property"

Picture if you will a person creating an HTML page. Picture that they don't really know much about computers, but consider themselves to be "programming" in some way. Is this Tim Berners-Lee's fault for specifying HTML to look, to the lay person, like a programming language?

I'd say any confusion about legal issues is more likely caused by the fact that being a nerd doesn't imply being an attorney, but it does imply acting like you know everything.