&gt; Because if I disagree with you, I must be drinking Google&#x27;s coolaid, right?<p>Well on HN, it seems Google cannot do no wrong and Oracle is the devil, regardless of them both being corporations and not really persons.<p>&gt; before you say the quote was part of &quot;putting on a happy face&quot;, maybe have a look at what he had to say when he was called as Google&#x27;s witness in Oracle v Google. It is also telling that he was called in by Google, rather than Oracle.<p>1 - Yes it was part of &quot;putting on a happy face&quot;<p>2 - Usually when one gets called to the court, it is not easy to say no, regardless which side puts your name on. So Google lawyers just were faster than Oracle&#x27;s.<p>3 - Ah but he testified on court. Well, having been born in a country just getting of dictatorship and where corruption is part of daily life, I don&#x27;t believe people always &quot;tell the truth and only the truth&quot; when at court.<p>The fact is that Google forked and frozed the Java eco-system.<p>Now in 2016 we are stuck with a Java 6 and a half, with no future in sight for newer versions. With the community coming up with hacks to try to use newer language features.<p>Java 9 and 10+ will bring major language features making it even worse to keep Java applications portable between the real Java and Android Java.<p>Google just managed to do what Microsoft failed at, and yet Google gets the brownie points.