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This is a cold war. God knows who pressured Sony to drop it, it was a fairly novel move and generated a ton of developer interest.

Oracle, Microsoft, Google, or was it even Apple, trying to retain language exclusivity?

It’s probably more mundane, like some pointy-haired boss who likes how internet-y “.net” sounds.