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ruffrey on April 18, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere

It sounds amazing. But Oracle's legal reputation means I can never safely choose their tech stack, especially not something open source and free.

One of a million examples, this happens on the front page of HN at the same time:

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/8d0bg2/oracle_o...

rockostrich on April 19, 2018 | [–]

Oracle can't sue you for using Java and OpenJDK.

voidfunc on April 18, 2018 | [–]

You have to rigorously defend trademarks otherwise you lose them. Oracles a shit tier company but I don't hold that against them.

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