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

[Russell Reiter]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 4:27 PM James Knott via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Reverse engineering C[hash:hash] style. Double your money perhaps?

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