You're speculating no fees paid to Oracle?

"J2EE" does not suggest Oracle in any way?

My understanding is that companies that license proprietary software are heavily involved in writing these open standards. Incorrect?

Please forgive my ignorance re: Java.

I think Moore was writing about drivers written in C.

Is the GP's story about programmers at a hardware company?

Does it matter that most of the comments are about high-level programming, not writing drivers?

Just wondering...