Open source is a mostly copyright governed license, separate from patent law.
But this could definitely result in a big slowdown of innovation and increases in price on Android and other Java devices.
Definitely bad for the world. And this is definitely betrayal, I hope it will come back and byte Oracle in the ass:
"It was part of Oracle's and Sun's communication strategy to tell community leaders that the deal was good in the community's interest because Sun owned so many patents that others (in some cases suggesting Microsoft although they never made a bid for Sun) might be able to use against free and open source software. They said that Oracle was a reasonable patent holder and wouldn't harm open source."
From: http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/08/oracle-sues-google-says-android.html
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