Java Daddy James Gosling goes to work for Amazon Web Services

Who?

You mean Ryan Gosling? Get your DevOps memes right, Register. ;-)

Reflection

As I recall, when Gosling left Oracle, the reflection on his thoughts on Oracle was like the reflection from those curved skyscrapers in Las Vegas that can set newspapers on fire and cook loungers at poolside.

They can work for me, or for my competitors

Sometimes the purpose of employing good people in the industry is to *stop* them working for the competition.

E.g. Dave Cutler and Tony Hoare (look them up) have both been employed by Microsoft Research for ages. It's entirely conceivable that the purpose of MS employing them is not to develop products for MS, but to *stop* them arguing against MS from outside.

https://news.microsoft.com/features/the-engineers-engineer-computer-industry-luminaries-salute-dave-cutlers-five-decade-long-quest-for-quality/

https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/tony.hoare/

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On reaching retirement age at Oxford, he welcomed an opportunity to go back to industry as a senior researcher with Microsoft Research in Cambridge. He hopes to expand the opportunities for industrial application of good academic research, and to encourage academic researchers to continue the pursuit of deep and interesting questions in areas of long-term interest to the software industry and its customers.

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