Litigation!
But Java is open source, how can this be . Because you have all been fooled by Sun. Java JRE and JDK have been open sourced, but the specification was never "open".
Java's spec is still very much closed - not even governed by a recognized standards body. If it had been laid out to ISO or ECMA with a proper patent protection (like MS did with C#) this would not be possible.
But it wasn't, so it is.
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