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> The chief beneficiary of taking down Android would be Apple, chaired by Ellison’s friend Steve Jobs. It seems exceedingly unlikely that Oracle would go after

> The chief beneficiary of taking down Android would be Apple, chaired by Ellison’s friend Steve Jobs. It seems exceedingly unlikely that Oracle would go after Android simply to help a brother out. It's much more likely that Oracle sees the potential for this to cement its control over Java so it can also control licencing revenues.

esrauch 15y ago
Right, it's not just J2ME. I remember reading that Sun was taking a cut ($10?) on every Kindle sold since they are running some version of java on it; presumably that is still true for Oracle and they see that slipping away (Nook uses Android for example, and I think the announced Amazon Tablet does too) It would be a pretty big loss to Oracle if they go from $10 per Kindle to $0.