Oracle and Google are currently what may be the biggest tech-related legal battle of the decade. It is up to the supreme court now. To put it simply, Oracle claims that Google hijacked Java for its Android ecosystem.
There may be some other areas where they compete, particularly when it comes to cloud services, but I think Java is the big one.
But Google switched to OpenJDK a while ago, and since that has become the reference Java implementation, how could Java be monetized nowadays for mobile devices?
Weren't they in fact forked Java the platform? AFAIK you were not allowed to create your incompatible Java version, Microsoft tried it withe their Embrace Extend Extinguish tactics and lost in the courts.
What is weird in the Oracle vs Google is that they are debating copyright over the APIs and that for me seems unrelated.
Oracle and Google are currently what may be the biggest tech-related legal battle of the decade. It is up to the supreme court now. To put it simply, Oracle claims that Google hijacked Java for its Android ecosystem.
There may be some other areas where they compete, particularly when it comes to cloud services, but I think Java is the big one.