[LINK] IDG reports that Google tells Oracle to set its sites

[Fernando Cassia]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn
<brd at iimetro.com.au> wrote:
> I can't work out if it's Joab Jackson, IDG News Service's reporter or
> Google's chief Java architect, Josh Bloch. But this paragraph is all
> over the new services:
>
>     As if Oracle did not have enough work convincing MySQL
>     users of its good intentions, the company also should set its
>     sites on getting the Java platform back on track,
>     contends a Google chief architect.
>
> http://www.cio.com.au/article/343012/google_exec_worries_over_rudderless_java?eid=450

Oh well, as if the java communit didn't have enough with Gavin Clarke
stories at The Register... comes this...

If someone has worked to sabotage Java it has been Google. Otherwise
it shouldn't have shipped Android without an industry-standard Java
VM.

There's lot of things that just made sense to implement in Java, yet
Google know-it-alls decided to do it in GEARS and Chrome.

Google doesn't want a level playing field that Java provides...
they're just another Apple or Microsoft, while pretending to play
nice... that doesn't mean some Google products aren't nice and a real
life saver (think: GMail, Google Docs)...

Also, if Google really wanted to compete with Microsoft, they'd have
put Google programmers at work to find ways to integrate OpenOffice
and Google Docs... so the desktop version (OO.o) can work with the
on-line Office (GDocs) and vice-versa.

Did they put Picasa programmers at work with Free Software projects
like Gnome to create a native version of Picasa for the Linux
desktop?. No, they went the route of WINE to run windows binaries on
Linux. Shame...

In short: Google doesn't "get" Free Software. Name me one, just one
Google product released with a GPL license.
FC