[GTALUG] Google wins over Oracle in Java API copyright suit

[James Knott]

On 2021-04-06 4:15 p.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 02:30:14PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote:
>> I prefer Oracle to win.  Then, Google would be forced to dump Java and find
>> replacement.
> The result on the entire industry would not be worth it.  If you don't
> want them to use java, you don't have to use android.
>
> Apple seems to prefer objc instead.
>
> I would love for java to not exist at all, but that doesn't appear to
> be happening no matter how much oracle tries to make it unappealing
> to everyone.
>

I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that Sun made Java available and 
encouraged it's use.  Then when Oracle bought Sun, they tried to rein it 
back in.  They did the same with OpenOffice.  So, this boils down to 
Oracle retroactively and unilaterally changing the terms for using Java.