Android and ripping Sun off.
Then they were hoping that no one would buy them, not even themselves cared to own Java after their trick.
So now they push Kotlin, while researching Fuchsia, and keep a bunch of lawyers quite happy.
Then they were hoping that no one would buy them, not even themselves cared to own Java after their trick.
So now they push Kotlin, while researching Fuchsia, and keep a bunch of lawyers quite happy.
Interesting logic.
Thankfully we are going to have that settled in the near future, and then Android folks can party all night long with their Kotlin implementation and rename ART into KVM.
AFAICT the whole fight is over API's and not "don't pay what the license specifies" as they give you the ability to do a clean-room implementation without paying royalties.
Not what I would call a tornado in the meaning pf destruction.
And about the license, well, it is disputed, right? I only read about it tangential, but the case seemed far from crystal clear to me.
No one needs Android Java slowing down the Java ecosystem by imposing additional burdens on Java library authors that also want to target Android.
Besides Google that is.
It explicitly only allowed the use of JavaSE on desktop deployments, OpenJDK was yet to be made available.
I was the only PC guy on my gang, and that was just due to other factors not commodity.