Arguendo: Cloud providers seem to be assuming that the development ecosystem belongs to them. They are extracting tons of money. Why don’t they just accept that hosting storage and compute will become commodity services, driving margins toward zero, and give up?

Plenty of reasonable players will touch Oracle v. Google going forward. I’m as eager to debate the opinion as other counsel. But procedural history demonstrates directly, not theoretically, that it’s effective against tech giants.

In the matter of API Owner v. Google, if API Owner touches that “third rail”, Google gets the shock.