You mean annihilated? The original meaning [0] of decimated meant a one-tenth reduction leaving 90% remaining.<p>[0] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)</a>
' "The court's reliance on "interoperability" ignores the undisputed fact that Google deliberately eliminated interoperability between Android and all other Java platforms," the company said in a statement issued this afternoon. "Google's implementation intentionally fragmented Java and broke the "write once, run anywhere" promise." '<p>So Oracle's argument is now (or has been) 'it's copyright infrignment if you copy part of it, but not if you copy all of it!'<p>Good luck with that.
Ars has certainly changed it's tune after claiming that Oracle won a couple of months ago... <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/jury-rules-google-violated-copyright-law-google-moves-for-mistrial/" rel="nofollow">http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/jury-rules-google...</a>
Good discussion going on in the other submission: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4050490" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4050490</a>
From the article:<p>>Some speculated an Oracle win could have scared programmers away from Java, but that kind of ruminating is a moot point now.<p>I'm not so sure they had to win to make that happen. Bringing this case forward in the first place was a great step in destroying the Java platform. And it wasn't even their first step, though it's gotten more attention than anything else so far.<p>Oracle <i>is</i> killing Java. The metaphor of the goose that lays golden eggs is terribly apt, here.