> Sun wanted Google to use Java. Because more developers using the language, regardless of the underlying implementation is better for the entire ecosystem. >

> Sun wanted Google to use Java. Because more developers using the language, regardless of the underlying implementation is better for the entire ecosystem. > Oracle doesn't. > So to some degree i do feel like consent matters here. It doesn't matter if Oracle copied Amazon's S3 API illegally if Amazon doesn't care enough to pursue it. If consent matters, then Google implicitly received it from Sun, but had it removed afterwards by Oracle. So if you actually support Oracle here, I don't understand how you can say "consent matters". The consent was given, yet you yourself don't consider it in Google's favor.