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It wasn't a parable about older family members being clueless when it comes to tech. People really can't imagine how a "new computer system" can cost 3 years and $90m to build, and…

The short answer is that it's not just a website. The website is just the front of a large, complex project that involves many other things. I have noticed how shocked people are w…

I'm shocked that people seem to think 3 years and $634m is a lot for a project of this scale. Are you all offering to design and build it 6 months in PHP for $50k ?

I didn't mention the word Oracle. Kaffe is still a JVM! It runs java applications unchanged. Dalvik is not. It can't run java classes compiled with a regular java compiler

Android doesn't really count as java, as it doesn't use the JVM. But even if you do choose to count it, it's only a very small part of the java ecosystem. Applets are dead, and jav…