alt Hacker News> "...embrace-extend-extinguish against Java..."
Early Java was horrid for everybody except the architecture astronauts who could cram ten GoF design patterns into a hello world program. It only got traction because a different wannabe monopolist, Sun Microsystems, spent heavily to get it pushed into CS curriculums. Fortunately, the one-two punch of Linux and Intel killed Sun or we might all be cursing them today instead of Microsoft.
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None of your opinion on Java changes the fact that Microsoft used it's monopoly to execute an embrace, extend, extinguish strategy on Java. It is well documented since they lost an anti-trust court case on it [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
It went the other way around. Object-oriented programming came out of academia, before Sun adopted it into Java. They adopted it full-force, making programmers jump through all of its hoops whether they wanted to or not, unlike C++ and Python where for most programs, the only hint of the language being object oriented is the syntax.
Sun was actually a decent company once upon a time. Their problem was that Microsoft excluded them from the market and starved them for money for so long that their hardware stopped being competitive, so that by the time Java made it so you could run some software on it, nobody wanted their hardware regardless.
It was only after they went bankrupt and got bought by Oracle that things like OpenSolaris getting killed off and Java lawsuits started happening.