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Re:Java Is Still Free by kamaal on Monday October 15, 2018 @06:29AM (#18218654)
>>This lawsuit has really nothing to do with people using OpenJDK/Oracle Java.

That depends on how commercially successful your product is. I don't think it would even make logical sense for Oracle to go after every single start up that uses Java.

But lets say tomorrow news came out that a big reason for AWS's success is Java, then all of a sudden you are going to see Oracle want some of that money.

Please note I'm not saying expecting people to pay is necessarily wrong. I'm only saying people need to know what they are signing up for.

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Re:Java Is Still Free by icebraining on Monday October 15, 2018 @06:50AM (#18218721)
And all I'm saying is that Google was not using Java, they were using an alternative implementation of the same APIs (derived from Apache Harmony). The difference is that using Java™ gives you a license to the copyright and patents (and hence protection from Oracle), whereas using something else does not.
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Re:Java Is Still Free by simion314 on Monday October 15, 2018 @07:41AM (#18218910)
Apple could install a free Java version and Oracle could do nothing about it, the problem was that Google was not using Java.
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