Java is dying and this was their attempt to experiment with the legal system. Protocol is being set and so far so good.

You are a genius. This is the legacy of the idiots who promoted the concept of ‘the long tail’ and thought to themselves ‘once I give them some crack cocaine for free I can start charging them for it once they are hooked’. Sorry but the world moves on. Additionally Java is dying. Invent something else rather than…

The nature of APIs is to facilitate system bridging. If Google has to pay Oracle for that, then we all do. It would be like Tbl suing for use of Internet. It was created in its essence to be open source. Oracle is dying and these are its grasps to hang onto life. Stupid.

As a GenX-er myself I nearly pissed myself laughing when I saw the illustration. I thought it was witty and brilliant as it’s simultaneously mocking us. Don’t forget a common phrase that many heard growing up (on the east coast at least) ‘get down off that cross, we need the wood’ i.e. ‘shut the fuck up with your…

I am wondering perhaps if the kids at Gizmodo forget that one of the common ways to say ‘shut the fuck up with your complaining’ is ‘get down off that cross, we need the wood’. I pissed myself laughing when I saw that illustration. Funny as hell.