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It will quite possibly be bad news for Android vendors. But by Google's own admission, Android is not Java.

[Insert obligatory smiley: :-) ]

Seriously, Google is one of the big backers of Java and OpenJDK. By suing Google, Oracle risk losing contributors like Josh Bloch and Martin Buchholz. I mean, they've already skipped out on JavaOne.

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They don't seem to care at all about losing top tech talent.

Cripes! They even wanted to convert James Gosling as a sort of a talking puppet at trade shows.

Your line of reasoning would work, if Oracle was about engineering. Oracle, however, is mostly a sales - and marketing operation with some engineering attached to it.

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