From a distance it looks like Java was a big pile of doggy poo. Nice concept, but flawed execution (oh dear). And in a GUI world, Java was clunky.
And now, again viewing from a distance, it looks like Google helped make it much more ubiquitous than Sun or Oracle ever did.
So now Oracle think, fuck me, how dare Google make all this money off of our ideas? Quick let's sue them so we can have some of that yummy dosh.
Meanwhile Google think, hang on, we did all that work to make it work on phones and tablets from a plethora of vendors. Why should we share our yummy cash with Oracle? Who even cares that without Java, we didn't really have a viable starting point for portable code on "our" devices?
It's possible I may be far off the truth, but this is how it appears to me, viewing from a distance.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
