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		wolfgke on March 27, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against... Just to give examples that look plausible to me: Because of the legal burden Google decided to implement their own version of the Java standard library based on Apache Harmony. With every new version of Java coming there might be new legal pitfalls to consider and surely almost always the sword of Damocles that Oracle might consider the fact that Google implemented new Java features as a reason to extort more money from Google since they implemented additional copyrighted APIs.

BoorishBears on March 27, 2018 | [–]

But they’ve already went and switched to OpenJDK.

Apparently the risk was not so large they couldn’t do it if they’ve decided to now

belltaco on March 27, 2018 | [–]

Legal burden or trying to save money? Didn't they get a license offer for $100M? Maybe they could've negotiated it down.

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