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Re:CEO Larry Page defends Google on the stand: “Declaring co... by keypusher on Friday May 20, 2016 @05:18AM (#11736488)
Would this also apply to projects like OpenJDK, that are alternative JVM implementations? If so, why did Oracle never go after them?
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Re:CEO Larry Page defends Google on the stand: “Declaring co... by valleyer on Friday May 20, 2016 @05:36AM (#11736554)
OpenJDK is code released by Sun.

Better analogies would be Harmony (what Android used) or GNU Classpath.

They did not go after those, one presumes, because those projects don't have billions of dollars to be sued for.

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Re:CEO Larry Page defends Google on the stand: “Declaring co... by jinst8gmi on Friday May 20, 2016 @05:44AM (#11736589)
OpenJDK is the official reference implementation of the JVM, so that would be a little silly...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK

http://openjdk.java.net/faq/

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Re:CEO Larry Page defends Google on the stand: “Declaring co... by punctilio on Friday May 20, 2016 @05:35AM (#11736550)
OpenJDK isn't a good example, as Oracle owns copyright on it.
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