Oracle Deletes Jonathan Schwartz's Old Blog
Found on Techdirt on Monday, 25 July 2011
There was a bit of an embarrassment in the ongoing patent dispute between Oracle and Google.
Google pointed out that if its use was so problematic, why did Sun celebrate Google's Java usage in Android? They pointed to a blog post from then-Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, which happily celebrated Google basing Android on Java/Linux.
Of course, that looks bad for Oracle... so it's response was to delete Schwartz's entire blog. Poof. That moment of history gone. Except if you have access to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
Too bad that it did not vanish. Too bad that this gets way more attention now that they made such a stupid move. Too bad for Oracle that is, which is great.