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Uh I think you got the words "SDK" and "API" mixed up.

Also preventing fragmentation is a goal, not an action. Oracle did legally abusive things, google hasn't.




Both Oracle and Google are trying to protect their IP from fragmentation. Google changing the SDK license is just as much of a action as Oracle suing Google over their copying of the API. We're just earlier in the process with Android.


They are definitely both 100% 'actions'. But google is just being less-sharey with stuff that isn't even part of android. While oracle was trying to claim code that wasn't even theirs.




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