[taligent]

You know it's funny but what you wrote sounds exactly like what Google did with Java.

[orangecat]

And Google isn't trying to sue Aliyun out of existence, nor forcibly prevent Acer from shipping Aliyun devices.

[recoiledsnake]

> nor forcibly prevent Acer from shipping Aliyun devices

You and me seem to have different definitions for the term 'forcibly', because that's exactly what they seem to be doing here, like Microsoft forced Hitachi not to ship dual boot systems with BeOS under the threat of pulling Windows.

[sabret00the]

Except Hitachi couldn't have still put out PCs with Microsoft on them. Acer would still be able to put out Android devices.

[cheald]

Google doesn't claim that Android is a Java platform (which will run any Java software).