Motorola was threatening to start suing other Android ODMs which would have wrought havoc from within the ecosystem. IIRC, Sun was a lot more forgiving and basi

Motorola was threatening to start suing other Android ODMs which would have wrought havoc from within the ecosystem. IIRC, Sun was a lot more forgiving and basically willing to look the other way at Google playing fast & loose with Java stuff. It was not yet in the offing that a) Sun was for sale, or b) Oracle would be the one to buy them within 2-3 years almost exclusively to bludgeon Google with the IP. In hindsight, it would have made all the sense in the world. Back then, I don't think it was clear it would be necessary and would have surprised people in a negative way probably ("Google's going to sell SPARC servers, now?" -- remember IP was not the stated reason for buying Motorola even if it's obvious that is what it was about now - at the time Google claimed to want to make devices). Connecting the dots forward is hard.