JavaScript and Webkit are different things, you should compare SpiderMonkey and V8. Chrome started in 2008 to improve JS speed in V8 and the competition then started.

LLVM comes from the University of Illinois, not from Apple.

"Still, anonymity is important when criticizing someone" Maybe no.

switching back was just a promise from a politician. Great value!

I am afraid you know nothing about database. NoSQL (http://www.scriptol.com/programming/nosql.php) **is** SQL, that is just the way data is stored that is different. And even if the article focuses on Riak, it seems to be just a part of the new system.

Microsoft is used to dirty tricks. An example is its settlement with a patent troll providing it get 5% if the troll sues Google.

To be fair, Andy Rubin left Danger in 2003 to found Android, but Microsoft bought Danger in 2008. Most of the staff left Microsoft in 2009.

I would be surprised if the majority shareholder has had fired himself.

I don't know too how Samsung thinks it can use ** GOOGLE *** products without paying Mictrosoft for them. I paid for my copy of Windows, and I expect Samsung to do the same when It use Android. Me too, when I buy a new pair of sockets I believe it is normal to pay royalties to Microsoft.

You must have looked terrible!

But they use US products. Free open source US software!

The main problem in JavaScript is not the language that could be improved, but how reluctant are browser makers to agree how to improve it. I imagine it would be even harder to reach with a langage made by one browser vendor!

Even near 1/4 the size: http://www.scriptol.com/techno...

You have not read the previous comments. He privately makes a donation. Some asshole published the list of donors. And you do not even know all the details. Maybe it is his mother who make the donation with his credit card, who know?

You can have personal beliefs. It only becomes a problem when your personal beliefs mean you are a pagan.