Oracle will pretty much kill Java now whether they win or loose this. Either way those that opposed Oracle buying Sun can now say they were right. It almost shows you Oracles whole plan. They want to lock down Java in some monolithic stack where you have to come to Oracle for everything. They basically said that from the get go. Well of course if they did people would simply run to things like OpenJDK/IcedTea and now with Android's success Dalvik. And since Dalvik seems to be the furthest away from Java I'm sure thats where many would run first. So Oracle is attacking them first to try and close that door.
As for this being similar to the MS suit I don't think so. MS basically created an incompatible version of Java and called it Java with the intent of locking people into their version and killing it. Google has made no claims to my knowledge that they are using Java. The have always called it Dalvik and said that is uses the Java syntax. In no way have they made it seem that you are developing pure Java.
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