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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by int_19h on Saturday October 10, 2020 @06:29PM (#24742337)
"Hello, world" is a rather poor example, because there's little practical value in a mobile application like that. The real value comes from being able to reuse many existing Java libraries.
Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by salawat on Sunday October 11, 2020 @12:34PM (#24746971)
Hello World! In a Turing space is all you need to implement every other program. Arguments that "there exists no program" come with an inherent verifiability criterion of " well here's one." The thing that Oracle is pissy about is that things get transpired out of Java Byte code, into Dalvik or ART.

Oracle wants patent like protections for the output of Java, and overall API structure in all languages. They want copyright on a meta-pattern. Just trying to imply skulduggery to "look, they joined our API structure, and didn't even do a good job of it, so they should have to pay us for infringement" is a transparent farce. It's an entrenching power grab.