The Battle for Java: And It Could Setup The Future of Software
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11 min readNov 15, 2019
Java was created by the mighty Sun Microsystems. It could be run under licence, and so when Google created Android they used Java, but recreated their own run time environment. But, rather than getting Sun Microsystems to sign a licence agreement for this, they just went ahead and created Android. When Oracle aquired Sun Microsystems, it could see the potential of suing Google for…