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Well except Google that got sued for US$8.8 Billion because they decided to use specific API signatures but provide their own implementation...?!
by jve 10mo ago
Well except Google that got sued for US$8.8 Billion because they decided to use specific API signatures but provide their own implementation...?!
- Hedepig 10mo ago... and Oracle lost
- cwillu 10mo agoAnd the lesson is not to trust Oracle.
- OrangeMusic 10mo agoCome on, that's a completely different story, Google made their own independent SDK using but incompatible with Java. Nobody's arguing you should do that. Plus last time I checked Oracle lost that lawsuit.
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- krzyk 10mo agoWhat Google did was similar what Microsoft did back in the days. Marketing something as Java, but wasn't Java.
- pjmlp 10mo agoIt incredible how far the "Do not evil" marketing won the hearts of computing nerds, Google only got positive karma for doing with Android exactly what Microsoft did with J++. To this day Android Java is not fully compatible with Java proper, and Kotlin became Google's version of C#.