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Thursday, 03 May 2012 12:20
What If All of the Java APIs were not free? How Many Applications Could no Longer Be Sold?
In another installment of our “and that is why you fail” byline we come to the small dispute between Google and Oracle. On the table is not if Google use Java APIs or not, but the basic question of “are Java APIs free to use for development?” This issue is a huge one as a Google loss could set precedent for Oracle to go after ANYONE that is using the Java API without paying royalties to Oracle for their use.
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