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		chmod600 on April 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [... Why did it have to be a verbatim copy rather than just a very similar API spec?

arduinomancer on April 6, 2021 [–]

Because you wouldn’t be able to run your existing Java code on their VM?

The whole point was interoperability

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