It uses the free JVM, but that doesn't help Oracle's bottom line. "We don't actually use many Oracle Java tools other than Java itself," says Jay Kreps, a principal staff engineer with LinkedIn.

Microsoft, IBM, the CCIA, and other groups filed briefs supporting Google in its Supreme Court copyright battle with Oracle over Java’s application programming interface.

In 2019, Google asked the Supreme Court to review Oracle’s long-running lawsuit over whether Android’s usage of Java was fair use. The Supreme Court this morning sided with Google and ...