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To run Java on your devices, you have to get it licensed. It takes lots of money and time to create a rich ecosystem like Java. Google never paid for permission
by tamrix 7y ago
To run Java on your devices, you have to get it licensed. It takes lots of money and time to create a rich ecosystem like Java. Google never paid for permission to use Java in andriod. Instead they copied Java and deliberately went around all the the patients and copywrite which includes the API debate as evidence google deliberately avoided copywrite.
If you look at this morally, Google used Java without paying. Pay up. If you look at this under a lens. Google never broke any laws because they looked up every patient and copywrite Oracle now owns and went around it. So technically, they didn't copy anything Oracle claims to own. All except, for one little minor detail in the API copywrite. Which of they can prove, then google stole Java.
Unfortunately, Google is very good at PR and has quite a big fan base. So all you'll hear is praise for the GOOG.
- jacques_chester 7y agoA nitpick: "copyright", not "copywrite". It's about the _rights_ of respective parties.