[pjmlp]

Every other commercial JDK vendor is able to comply with licenses and still provide language extensions and their own VM stacks. There are quite a few examples to chose from.

Why should Google be a special snowflake that doesn't play by the same rules?

[AnimalMuppet]

Why should they have to play by the same rules? If the rules they are playing by are judged to be legal, what's wrong with what they're doing?

[pjmlp]

To avoid doing a Microsoft move on us that now enjoy the pain of writing not so portable Java code across official standar Java™ and Android devices, thus making a fork in the Java ecosystem.

[geodel]

Well that special snowflake is sued and they are having their day in court. Oracle has extinguished many rivals in court and maybe they will do it again.