>With Google at the steering wheel I bet Java developers would still be enjoying Java 6. Maybe. Maybe not. But just to be clear, if all this case was about was

>With Google at the steering wheel I bet Java developers would still be enjoying Java 6. Maybe. Maybe not. But just to be clear, if all this case was about was Oracle trying to extract some money from Google, it would be nothing but a curious sideshow. What Oracle is doing goes way beyond Java. They are trying to set an insane precedent and that has never existed in our industry, and had it existed it would have drastically reshaped it to the extent that it would be unrecognizable today. The implications of Oracle winning would be far reaching and unknown.