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librejava anyone?
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 04:17 PM EDT
The code is free. In theory the community could escape Oracle's clutches by
simply forking the code, choosing a different name/trademark, and writing their
own TCK. That is assuming the judge rules sanely. If he rules that Oracle has a
copyright interest in the API you'd have to set up in a country with sane laws.
You couldn't program in libreJava in the US, but at least the rest of the world
would be OK.

On the patent side one may hope that whatever is left of the patents (looks like
not much at this stage) can be worked around. Mind you Oracle is mad as a
mongoose and willing to sue people on bizarre grounds when they have not much of
a case, so if it stayed in the US the project would need to be backed by someone
with deep enough pockets to withstand a lawsuit. Alternatively it could set up
in a place where software is unpatentable - New Zealand for example.

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