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Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first time (www.theregister.com)
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[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 9 points 6 months ago

The big problem is rather that a lot of innovation has been absorbed by the big companies via buyouts

Which ultimately does seem to lead to innovation slowing down. The big players buy out any potential smaller competitors, and very often just outright kill the products / services they inherited in the acquisition.