“Freedom and choice used to be values of America”
I admit it. Oracle Android is an excellent smartphone operating system. I’m sure Larry Ellison is happy Google chose to distribute it freely... without the proper license agreement. $10 per phone and a revenue share percentage for all mobile advertising will certainly help the Oracle bottom line. :-)
Unfortuately for ol’ Larry, Google uses Java SE (which was released to the public domain, nothing Oracle can do about it) and they rolled their own VM. Other than sharing the name “Java”, there is no crossover between Google’s implementation and the proprietary ME engine that Oracle bought when they bought Sun.
Larry needs a new yacht, I guess, and is hoping for some sort of payoff!