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Originally Posted by fjtorres
It's worth remembering Microsoft lost a similar JAVA lawsuit years ago and in their case they were creating something new, not just a plain copy.
I see little chance of Google winning this one.
It's an interesting mess.
Made a bit more interesting because both players are equally sleazy.
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If that was so easy and clear cut, they would have used that already to make a case in the current law suit. Not so easy now? Microsoft may have technically lost, but they still made out in the end.
This time it is different - Oracle is not interested at all to provide support for Java in Android, they want to cash in from its widespread success. If Google gets a similar deal as Microsoft did, they laugh all the way to the bank, are allowed to keep all current versions as is, and only need to worry about changing the API for the next version.
No backwards compatibility in the next Android? No problem, use this newly included virtual machine and install an older version of Android in it. To top it off, put the next API into the public domain. The essential part of Android, the Google Play services, is already separate from the OS itself, so a clone of Android is not hurting Google in any shape or form.