Do we declare JavaFX as dead now ?
Using lawsuits to take down the competing alternative might not sit well with handset manufactures. Who the heck wants to invest money into something that is not installed on phones and will likely never be installed until the whole lawsuit thing is over ? And by "lawsuit thing" I mean a SCO like battle between Oracle and every single company who violates some random Sun patent. Sure, suing Google is typical American Fortune 500 lawyers-want-a-bonus kind of thing. But where does it stop ? Is Google it ?
Pretending that this is like Microsoft back in 1997 might now work out so well. That case went on for four years before a settlement was reached. And the end result was .NET, Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone 7 competing directly with Java. And yeah, a truckload of "Java sucks" developers who write web applications that depend on seven nuclear power-plants, two undersea pipelines and 24 switches to print out “Hello World”.
Even if this ends quickly and Google pays up, JavaFX might end up as the next Microsoft J++. Which would be ironic. Oracle does not give a shit about JavaFX. This is all about cashing in on Sun patents that Sun claimed where purely defensive.
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