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On April 2, 2010, Gosling left Sun Microsystems which had recently been acquired by the Oracle Corporation.

Regarding why he left, Gosling cited reductions in pay, status, and decision-making ability ; change of role ; and ethical challenges.

He has since taken a very critical stance towards Oracle in interviews, noting that " During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle.

" Later, during the Oracle vs. Google trial over Android, he clarified his position saying " Just because Sun didn't have patent suits in our genetic code doesn't mean we didn't feel wronged.

While I have differences with Oracle, in this case they are in the right.

Google totally slimed Sun.

We were all really disturbed, even Jonathan: he just decided to put on a happy face and tried to turn lemons into lemonade, which annoyed a lot of folks at Sun.