actually they didn't want to pay a single dollar to sun, because of licensing reasons, not because they didn't wanted to buy java. currently they recreated the

actually they didn't want to pay a single dollar to sun, because of licensing reasons, not because they didn't wanted to buy java. currently they recreated the java apis by pulling in apache harmony and they tought that they are in the right or at least in a fair use position (they still think they do). but I agree, I'm not sure if the direction of java would've been better when google would have the stewardship.