"Oracle is hardly in the right for coming along afterward and changing things"
So if you buy a bankrupt company you're bound to the same behaviour that brought it in that situation, and you shoudn't change anything? When Jobs got back to Apple it should have not changed anything and keep on with the bad ideas of his predecessors? One of the first thing he made was to kill the licensed clones...
Why Sun open sourced Star Office? Should it be allowed to bought it and "change things"?
Sun was OK? Did it ever write that in an official document? Did it license Java to Google? No, it didn't, and Google didn't bother even to ask - even if inside Google someone warned about that. So whatever its pony-tailed previous CEO thought, it's really irrelevant.
New owners, new rules, sorry. And one of the main reasons Oracle bought Sun was exactly to take control of Java.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
