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“A woeful mischaracterization of the artful design of the Java package”
11 min readFeb 22, 2020
Java was created by the mighty Sun Microsystems. It could be run under licence, and so when Google created Android they used Java, but recreated their own run time environment. But, rather than getting Sun Microsystems to sign a licence agreement for this, they just went ahead and created Android. When Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, it could see the potential of suing Google for its now licenced usage of Java. And so first they tried a patent case, and…