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Food for thought: Say Oracle wins. Now android comes with a price tag. Doesn't that mean, some open source alternatives like FirefoxOS or PostMarketOS will ge
by sharmi 8y ago
Food for thought:
Say Oracle wins. Now android comes with a price tag.
Doesn't that mean, some open source alternatives like FirefoxOS or PostMarketOS will get more mindshare?
A cursory look at all the open source alternatives, shows that they are all based on Linux. So interoperability could be achievable.
It could be whole new world!
- zanny 8y agoGoogle would only be able to sell new versions of Android, mainly starting with 10. They can't revoke the Apache license on Android through version 9. On top of that, Android 7 already switched to OpenJDK. It no longer uses Harmony as a result in addition to their custom rewrites. So even if Oracle wins, Android hasn't been in violation of any API copyright they have for about two years now.