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I'm not sure I understand why forking OpenJDK would have been legally distinct from a from-scratch re-implementation. In both cases, Google is re-using the APIs

• e40 10y ago
  Exactly. And, let's be honest, the position Google took would have been supported by Sun. They would have wanted other implementations of their API. Oracle is only doing this because they can. They have the money. They have the desire (to fuck with Google). So they do it. I really don't get the anger toward Google. I don't think they did anything wrong here. If they did, it will haunt a lot of other companies than just Google.
  • scholia 10y ago
    > I really don't get the anger toward Google. I don't think they did anything wrong here. If you check the internal email records, I suspect you'll find that Google thought that it was doing something wrong.... http://www.fosspatents.com/2016/05/heres-mountain-of-willful-infringement.html http://www.fosspatents.com/2016/05/heres-mountain-of-willful...
    • e40 10y ago
      Just because people inside Google thought it was wrong doesn't make it so.
      • scholia 10y ago
        True. But the fact that Google staff felt guilty about ignoring copyright notices and spent years removing evidence from their code is a pretty good indication that they knew they were doing something wrong, even if technically they weren't...