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Originally Posted by murg
This is going to lead to some interesting things.
Firstly, Oracle will probably sue Microsoft for the same reason. The C# .Net library is almost a call for call rip-off of the Java library. (Ok, a caveat: I haven't done much Java, but every time I do a Google search for a C# library call, there seems to be an identical Java call).
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Doubtful. As long as it was a "clean room" development and not based on the actual Java source code, they should be OK, just as there was no legal problem for the companies that produced "clones" of the original IBM PC. They were duplicating the functionality, but making no use of IBM's code. Similarly, the authors of the WINE Windows emulation environment for Linux are in the clear legally, because they've duplicated the Windows API, but used no Microsoft source code to do so.