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0 pointsowaislone9y ago0 comments

By essentially re-implementing Java. That doesn't apply to the rest of the world.

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And Oracle sued over that. Still is suing over that. The suit threatens all of software by declaring APIs exempt from fair use.

BoorishBears9y ago

It's not like Google didn't do anything wrong, the fragmentation created by dividing Java into Java, and "Android Java", is damaging

drvdevd9y ago

One could argue that the Java ecosystem was already pretty fragmented and weird anyway: Java Card, Java in the browser, all the many versions of the JVM on every platform, and open source JVM "forks"... right?

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