The question that you beg is that any one has to interoperate against
the
java platform or that any one has to build an Oracle-compatible jvm.
Looking at
the mobile space, Apple does well without making any
concessions to java
developers or to java applications users may have
installed or written. Google,
by virtue of Microsoft's complacency and
confusion over what the iPhone meant,
would have done fine without Sun's
jvm or a Sun java compatible jvm. At
the end, I think that the Judge
is going to say
that looking at top level
documentation for research and guidance towards
independent implementation is
fair use as it is indistinguishable from the
way a programmer uses the api's
documentation to guide how they write
programs. If Google had published
verbatim
copies of Guy Steele's java specification book or O'Reilly's Java
Examples
books or Joshua Bloch's seminal work on effective java, that'd be over
the
line. It should be noted that the copyright for
O'Reilly's books are fully
owned by O'Reilly. Bloch's and Steele's books
were written for
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