I disagree, it matters because acquiring a technology that has an existing open-source community (that can fork your codebase...) is not the same things as releasing your internally developed technology as open-source and build a community around.
Looking at OpenOffice or MySQL, it does not seem that Oracle had a great success with open-source communities.
And the Java topic is not different altogether, it is disturbing to claim to be "open-source friendly" when you release an open-source implementation for the JVM but sue on the basis that the API is copyrighted.
What is off-topic it talking about Oracle at all in this thread ;-)
And the Java topic is not different altogether, it is disturbing to claim to be "open-source friendly" when you release an open-source implementation for the JVM but sue on the basis that the API is copyrighted.
What is off-topic it talking about Oracle at all in this thread ;-)