I suspect if Oracle&#x27;s wins the case ...<p>1) they will win a lot of money in the near term but it will greatly diminish the popularity of Java&#x2F;JVM in the long run because most tech companies shudder at the thought of having Oracle be the slumlord of their core program language.<p>2) there will be a painful transition of FUD and lawsuits but open source languages&#x2F;libraries will be ultimately become stronger in industry b&#x2F;c the licenses can easily be extended to API rights.  Restrictively or vaguely licensed code will be looked up on with greater suspicion.