[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“Oracle is suing Google over the use of Java in Android
and that may change everything about Java and open-source
development.“That’s one heck of a claim. Unfortunately, the experts
agree.“Java, while never a key language in Linux, is the core language
for literally hundreds of software development companies and
organizations. They range in size from IBM with its J9 JVM (Java
Virtual Machine) and Red Hat with its JBoss middleware stack to
pure open-source projects such as the Apache/Jakarta, to individual
developers who are members of the Java Community Process (JCP).
It’s hard to think of a software development business that doesn’t
use its own house-brew of Java somewhere in its product line or
development stack.”