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Well except Google that got sued for US$8.8 Billion because they decided to use specific API signatures but provide their own implementation...?!

>>jve+(OP)
... and Oracle lost

>>jve+(OP)
Come on, that's a completely different story, Google made their own independent SDK using but incompatible with Java. Nobody's arguing you should do that.

Plus last time I checked Oracle lost that lawsuit.

>>Hedepi+e1
And the lesson is not to trust Oracle.

>>jve+(OP)
What Google did was similar what Microsoft did back in the days. Marketing something as Java, but wasn't Java.

>>krzyk+w91
It incredible how far the "Do not evil" marketing won the hearts of computing nerds, Google only got positive karma for doing with Android exactly what Microsoft did with J++.

To this day Android Java is not fully compatible with Java proper, and Kotlin became Google's version of C#.