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[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Oracle might some day decide that they're an IP violation like they did with Google's Android

They lost that case. It went all the way to the US Supreme Court and set a binding precedent that an API re-implementation falls under the Fair Use doctrine. Maybe Oracle could try some excuse to say that OpenJDK is different enough from what Android did for that precedent to apply, but it would be a major uphill battle, and they know it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It was expensive for Google and fighting them would destroy most companies. It's cheaper to avoid the ecosystem entirely.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It was expensive for Google, but they've done the hard work of establishing the precedent. It's much easier to fight when you have a strong binding precedent on your side.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

C# is a better language anyway.

I expect the future is in Rust and C#.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Oh I agree. I love C#. My uni taught most of its classes in Java, but my work has been mostly C#, and it's a huge step up. It would be my choice 100% of the time if starting a new project where the decision is between those two. But if I were using Java via OpenJDK, I wouldn't be afraid of a lawsuit; that's the only point I wanted to make.