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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by ocdtrekkie on Thursday October 08, 2020 @12:41PM (#24720867)
Google wasn't interested in interoperability. A big part of why they allegedly walked away from Java licensing was Oracle wanted Android to actually run Java apps, and Google wanted to basically fork off, but just benefit from the developer community around the Java language.
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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by zucker42 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @02:56PM (#24722470)
Can't you use many Java libraries on Android? Interoperable doesn't mean "exactly the same".
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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by johncolanduoni on Friday October 09, 2020 @04:23AM (#24727915)
There were a number of Java standard library incompatibilities that various libraries have had to adapt to, until they switched the library implementation to OpenJDK.
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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by sangnoir on Thursday October 08, 2020 @05:14PM (#24724021)
Interoperability is not limited to executable-interop: it includes developer knowledge, libraries and tooling - which are exactly the reasons Google chose to use Java (the language). Dalvik checked all those boxes, without being bytecode-compatible with the JVM
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