"The Google platform just got bigger and market power greater — the barriers to entry higher and the ability to compete lower. They stole Java and spent a decade litigating as only a monopolist can. This behavior is exactly why regulatory authorities around the world and in the United States are examining Google's business practices."
- Dorian Daley, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Oracle
The irony is that what they claim happened is instead what would have happened only if the case was resolved in the opposite direction. Everybody having to pay for API licenses for absolutely everything would be disastrous. The gridlock would be insane.
The alternative would have been not using Java at all. That would have made attracting programmers more difficult at the beginning of the Android platform, but then, Java would have disappeared on mobiles, at least.
I do not discuss why Oracle thinks is entitled to have of big chunk of the revenues of Android and the work of Google.
"The Google platform just got bigger and market power greater — the barriers to entry higher and the ability to compete lower. They stole Java and spent a decade litigating as only a monopolist can. This behavior is exactly why regulatory authorities around the world and in the United States are examining Google's business practices."
- Dorian Daley, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Oracle
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