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by jcranmer 1050 days ago
> It probably would have been Java (from Android and elsewhere) had it not been all the legal stuff with Oracle brewing.

Oracle started buying Sun (and consequently Java) in 2009; the merger was completed in 2010. So I fail to see how that could have influenced Google's purported aversion to Java in the early 2000s, even as late as 2007 or 2008.