IBM is safe, since they've played by the rules and since they have an even bigger patent bat than Oracle does. There may be tensions, but probably nothing we'll

IBM is safe, since they've played by the rules and since they have an even bigger patent bat than Oracle does. There may be tensions, but probably nothing we'll ever see from the outside. I think other OSS Java implementations are safe too, because: a. they don't harm Oracle's business in any substantial way (nobody's using them), and b. there's no profit in going after them. If you start to look at everything Oracle does through the lens of "profit above all else" the clouds become a little less cloudy.