You cant possibly in a million years stop the data laundering that mere "browser cookies" have inspired. The Internet is a very very capable surveillance tool and Im sure it wont be stopped. Ever. In our lifetimes or anyones elses. The value of the data at this point when taken in bulk is more than the value of all the garbage we buy on the interwebs combined. To "those people", ya know creeps.

Most Americans cant get into Canada....little known fact.

This is not a suggestion. https://coronavirus.marinhhs.o.... Its an order. If you read this FAQ which amounts to some sort of fascist version of Jeopardy where you can guess which "rights" you may still have left, if I go on vacation thats "unapproved behavior" and the state may not allow me to return to my own home. So hey cool, let's freak out over some half baked stats about overwhelming a healthcare system that doesnt even really exist in the US anyway. This reaction is proof that we are all sick. Sorry for the lack of momentary empathy. I will do what I please in a free country.

NPM is really just fine. A toy package manager for a toy language. Who owns it is about about as important as who walks my dog.

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if you find yourself hating a group of people, they are likely nazis

Are you just a sucker?

Hey fool,

There are no "clones" of java. The name Java is trademarked and completely secure. If you doubt me see SUN, vs Microsoft. The JVM itself is completely proprietary and google stole most of that too, until they got caught and switched to cross compilation as an excuse for their theft.

SCOTUS is not judging whether Oracle is Google is a "good company" . They are judging whether a software license is in fact enforceable. As a matter of basic contract law, if it cant be then we live in a lawless society where its not really worth producing anything.

Yes your experience is limited. Microsoft Windows API was a direct and complete lift from IBM OS/2 which they were sued over because Bill Gates stole it from IBM under the purview of a limited partnership.

Only a fool would use any variant of MySQL

Oracle didnt invent or create Java. It *bought* SUN. Re-inspecting Oracles early stage motivations and actions has nothing to do with the case before SCOTUS.

SUN had the digital equivalent of brick and mortar licensing terms that were de-facto violated by Google.

If your really interested in for example the threat that Java posed to the industry at large I suggest you watch the video depositions of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs from the late 90's where federal regulators discovered (but didnt act on) the fact that Bill Gates tied his investment in a failed Apple Computer to "killing Java" and Steve Jobs agreed to do so minimally by making it as incompatible as possible on the Mac.

The thing is this. No software that makes money can exist without licensing. Big, massive monopolies have tried to either kill or savage or steal Java since the day it was born. Ironically the same people who support linux are taking Googles side in this. And thats a sad sad day for the best technology that has been invented since a several decades ago.

To focus on any of this is kind of dumb. Andy Rubin;'s email account would say otherwise. Google was in a panicked raced to match Apple for smartphones. They knew that they needed developers. They knew they didnt have a platform to win them over. And they knew Java a licensed language was the only alternative if they wanted to "catch up".

Now, Java has been a very freely licensed technology since its inception. There was really only ONE stipulation that might cost you some money. SUN was providing software for dumb phones that ran Java. So if you wanted to use Java in that way, on a phone, you were REQUIRED to license it.

In now famous email exchanges from Google they "decided" to say "FUCK IT". Well that decision is now up to SCOTUS to decide if this is really an abstract argument in dithering over copyright, or the willful theft via non-licensing to create a platform that might not exist without this technology.

So I ask you Google., would the 5 bucks a phone you would have paid to SUN/Oracle, really have killed you? Noone likes paying rent, but squatters are simply that. Squatters.

If you are suggesting software CANT be licensed, then you are 100% correct. But software CAN be licensed. So you are 100% wrong.

Josh Bloch of all people knows google violated/ignored/whathaveyou the licensing terms of Java. Politicking this is pretty much stupid and useless.

And the idea that this is novel is also ridiculous. Several, MANY companies have *tried* to steal Java. IBM, Microsoft, Apache, Google, VMWare, Redhat to name a few.

Stealing Java is like stealing oxygen. If you can pull it off, your a winner. But you cant. And thank god for that. And shame on you Josh Bloch for suggesting otherwise.

So percentage growth is pretty meaningless. What matters more is percentage of devs doing a specific thing. Demand for "scala" devs supposedly went up 100% but that could just mean there's demand for 2 of them over the one last year. its really irrelevant to bake a cake that way. The number of actual professional scala devs is somewhere around 1-2% of all devs and will not likely change.

But I do have a serious problem with this statement:
"... not just Silicon Valley tech giants -- are evolving into being tech companies..."

This is actually a trend in reverse. And thats a good thing. We will start to see all companies abandoning internal tech. They are ALMOST there already. Its a complicated formula but whats actually been happening is that outsourcing and onshoring is simply not working for most companies unless they are just doing it as a stopgap to move it out of house forever.

They are paying multiples of what it costs to build anything and are not happy with the results. What we WILL see, is a return to the bad old days, its happening now, where there be a reinvention of what we used to call a "software company". Notice I didnt say a "services company". The trend led by contracting and outsourcing is designed not to make the company competent in software at all; Its quite the opposite, to put risk at an arms length so it can be written off its balance sheet as a sunk cost. When this inevitably becomes unsustainable, (and management gets tired of failing) the mythical software company will re-emerge and internal IT including software development will simply cease to exist in any form.