“During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle.” EyeSituationSunMeetingsLawyerGoogleIntegrationPatentsSparkleOracles Author:James Gosling
“All of us who attended the meeting - including Microsoft - unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java tools and programs, would injure other tools vendors and would damage customers' ability to run a Java-based software product on whatever platform they wished.” RunningLanguageHurtAbilityProductsProgramToolsMeetingsIncludingCustomersDamageProgrammingSoftwarePlatformsMicrosoftProgramming LanguagesExtendingJavaCompatibilityVendors Author:James Gosling