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Also, as the article j-g-faustus linked pointed, Google did something special to avoid the GPL, so JVMs that followed the usual rules won't be affected. This m

by narag 16y ago

Also, as the article j-g-faustus linked pointed, Google did something special to avoid the GPL, so JVMs that followed the usual rules won't be affected. This makes me think that cscotta's point on uncertainty is not so strong. It'll be certainly an unpopular measure among developers, but Oracle can say that the case against Google is similar to the one against Microsoft and use the usual "fragmentation" argument.

lucifer 16y ago
What Google is doing is exactly the same thing Microsoft tried with Java (TM:). And Google is not doing Java community any favors by fragmenting the platform. Google is a behemoth filled to gills with paper money. All these facts make the (contrary) popular reaction quite interesting from a psychological point of view. Image is everything, after all.