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by 5ersi 2619 days ago
It wasn't Google who did it, but Apache: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Harmony
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pjmlp 2619 days ago
Google had the choice to deal with Sun, but they though given Sun's account state they would get away with it, to the point that buying Sun to own Java wasn't even considered.
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curt15 2618 days ago
The question regarding Apache is interesting though -- how is what they did legally different from what GNU/Linux did to commercial Unix?
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