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It's not supposed to, except to say that Oracle isn't trying to fight developers - it's just fighting Google (though innocent developers may be accidental victims).

Frankly, I can't bring myself to whole-heartedly support either party. They're both big, fat, super-rich and super-powerful conglomerates who have no one's interest in mind except their own (and, possibly, their shareholders').




> It's not supposed to, except to say that Oracle isn't trying to fight developers - it's just fighting Google (though innocent developers may be accidental victims).

In this case, the two are functionally equivalent. It's not even a subtle side effect, everyone is saying it as loudly as possible, so "accidental" or "unintended" seem disingenuous at this point.


True. Then again, everything large corporations do is disingenuous.




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