Oracle was responsible for my first complaint, while I was doing my first internship in the US. Because once I used my private laptop with the VirtualBox Extension Pack while connected to the work network. The incredible legal/licensing team got in touch because they identified this use. Since than I avoid Oracle like plague.
They just went ahead and sent us an invoice. Sales by extortion... so I made sure to replace our JRE in places (where Oracle snuck in) and uninstall anything else Oracle across our fleet.
A great deal of Spring is based on classpath scanning and reflection; I don't think any such thing as ServiceLoader exists in golang, and my experience with the golang reflection has been "this is clearly solving some other problem than the one I have"
> Why do you think Microsoft is now back in Java land with their own distribution
Because they have enough engineers to throw at any big environment where they can potentially expand in the future and having own distribution for an app layer lays foundations for new Azure services? (edit: checked after the response; first paragraph: "Java at Microsoft spans from Azure to Minecraft, across SQL Server to Visual Studio Code" - yeah, I think I got it)
So .NET was born out of legal issues with Java, and those critical issues happen to be written in Java instead of .NET, by the company that created .NET in first place, so much for "Dotnet - it's already ahead..."
And here are some examples where .NET is hardly ahead, it isn't even there.
Among other several use cases outside mainstream computing, there are many JVM vendors out there, in the similar vein as C and C++ ones.
And naturally the elephant in the room, Android with its Android Java flavour, with Xamarin not really offering a good development experience, to the point Xamarin rants are quite easy to find on the interwebs (it remains to be seen if MAUI is any better).
Oh yeah when I worked at Oracle they'd do these kinds of shakedowns even on stuff people were paying to host. This was pre OCI though, dunno if they're still doing it. Felt like something the mob would do.
Nice company you have there, shame if something were unlicensed eh?
It wasn't originally their product. It came with the Sun Microsystems acquisition. Sun themselves acquired Virtualbox close to selling to Oracle. Sun never monetized their products well, hence their demise.
I recall SGI were eaten more by Windows NT + off the shelf OpenGL graphics card than Linux. (But Linux also, of course. All non display output which was ran on SGI/Irix could be ran cheaper on Linux.)
Same still last year, except now the unit cost nearly doubled. We pay for a handful of VMware licenses instead now, which is 10x cheaper (more expensive per license, but you don't need a literal hundred of them). I'm convinced that the only reason for this is so that Oracle can send invoices to companies using the evaluation license for this ridiculous minimum amount without it seeming worth a challenge in court when one only has four machines and doesn't need a hundred licenses.
Something similar happened to me, but with Qt. I installed Qt Open Source at home to compile OpenMSX debugger (a hobby project to which I have contributed). I don't know why I used my work email account instead of my personal one. The next day at work, we received a call from Qt with threats saying that we had to buy a licence.
