[palmer]

Google, facebook, and apple have so much cash they could buyout anyone or anything that they need thousands of times over.

That's a good thing. Buying is not stealing.

[SmokingJoe]

They didn't buy the Java code. They stole it.

[z3n]

Google, facebook, and apple have so much cash they could buyout anyone or anything that they need thousands of times over.
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That’s a good thing. Buying is not stealing.
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I have no problem with it in theory. Implied in my statement is the context of cheating Java. If they can’t buy what they want, they can steal it like almost no one else can get away with. They don’t just have a lot of influence and power, they can pay a thousand lawyers to string out legal defense the way you or I pay for a cup of coffee.