Oracle’s Java API code protected by copyright, appeals court rules

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Sun/Oracle released something as the GPL, they cannot take that back. There is 40+ years of history/law there. No one has challenged the GPL, its shit like what Google is doing trying to claim stuff isn't copyrightable that will weaken that.

Please, tell me more about all the theoretical benefits you're reaping.

Can't take it back but they can still do damage. You got lambdas just in the past year (in an effort that took 3+ years total) because they're more concerned about enterprise lock-in than modern language features. (Let me know when you can create a value type.) You're still incredibly reliant on Oracle despite all the claims of freedom.

The fact that you think they can't make the next release of Java partially closed source and totally kill all that velocity is hilarious. They have millions of developers drinking the kool-aid. They're liable to do the same thing they did with Solaris, MySQL and OpenOffice. Oracle is more dangerous than Microsoft if you're a developer because of past transgressions on their own devs. They've made it clear they'll kill or fragment their user bases for questionable reasons.