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> In fact, Gates is still kicking himself for taking his eyes off the ball and allowing Google to develop Android

And those in Google are probably also kicking themselves for taking their eyes off the ball and allowing Oracle to acquire Sun

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Whatever for would google want sun. Java is open source, Solaris and sparc are struggling

Perhaps all the lawsuits (or I guess one lawsuit that has been going on for more than a decade with all the appeals). At this point I'm sure it would have been cheaper to acquire Sun than to drag this out and still potentially face fines in the billions.

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