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by corruption 5789 days ago
I think this type of behavior was what everyone feared would happen, but I never really believed they would stoop this low.

This may mean that JCP is dead, harmony is doomed and it must be pretty scary for companies heavily invested in Java.
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Niten 5789 days ago
This would be like Microsoft suing the Mono team for its C# and CLI implementations, which it has irrevocably promised not to do:

http://www.microsoft.com/interop/cp/default.mspx

I was worried when Oracle acquired Sun, but I never thought I'd see them clamp down on Java to the extent that .NET is a significantly more open platform. But there it is.

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wmf 5789 days ago
This has nothing to do with the JCP or Harmony. Sun's long-standing policy has been to grant Java licenses to compatible implementations, which Dalvik certainly is not. Also, Sun was only willing to grant free licenses to open-source non-mobile VMs, which again Dalvik is not eligible for.
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