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by liopleurodon 2600 days ago
Oracle v Google
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curt15 2600 days ago
Android has been using OpenJDK for a while with no problems.
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nl 2600 days ago
Google vs Oracle isn't "no problems"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google....

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yorwba 2600 days ago
As far as I can tell, Oracle vs Google was due to Google not using OpenJDK, but their own implementation.
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dragandj 2600 days ago
Moreover, their implementation didn’t work on standard compliand JVMs, and was called Java, despite being only similar to Java. Even Microsoft’s J++ worked on different JVMs if you didn’d use Windows specific classes...
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