Waiting for Angela Collier to make a video on this, I'm sure many people will forward her this article. MOND is actually a niche in cosmology despite its PR.
I regret ever Open Sourcing Java, for so many reasons.... mostly since my daughter is now coding.
Turns out Scott McNealy let me open source 1,600 patents in one day back in January 2005. I got to fight with legal for two days and as a reward I got to then Open Source Java and argue more. Scott was very aspirational and forward thinking -- so when I wrote that "all high school students one day will learn to code with Java" in the press release, it never actually occurred to me that fast forward to 2021 my daughter would be using Java. Scott was right. I was right.
Yet, here we are. Turns out my husband is really "embedded" and isn't a Emacs or Java fan (and I worked with James Gosling, I am so so sorry for this!). So the vi fan in my kitchen questioning why things are called this or that is like a full on religious war right now and "blame your mother for this" has been used at least 4X in the last two weeks.
It wasn't the Oracle purchase, the Supreme Court drama, the patent drama or even the battles back in 2005 between internal software groups at Sun that bother me about the whole experience ..... it's my daughter and husband discussing her homework that is beyond painful now. Oy.
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