Agreed that the article is a bit thin, but it does state what was in the email: the passage in question was from an internal e-mail in 2010 to Google executive

Agreed that the article is a bit thin, but it does state what was in the email: the passage in question was from an internal e-mail in 2010 to Google executive Andy Rubin saying “the technical alternatives to using Java for Android ‘all suck’ and stating, ‘we conclude that we need to negotiate a license for Java under the terms we need.’”