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honestly, as a poorly informed IT manager, i'd be more afraid that java costs money to use, and would end up either wasting a lot of time researching licensing information or straight up trying to move away from java

FUD is the only kind of bad publicity.

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I had a question along those lines come up recently where I work. Someone had heard a little about the lawsuit and asked if there was a concern that Oracle was suing organizations that used Java. The person I spoke with admitted that they knew almost nothing about the issue, just that Google used Java and got sued; and since we use Java in some cases could it mean that we were open to the possibility of being sued by Oracle.

Although vanishingly unlikely, I don't think this is a bad question. You'd have to be big enough to somehow threaten Oracle. Not many companies fit that bill.

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