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Opinions differ, of course, depending on one's proximity to a lifeboat.
Those of us sailing merrily by on another ship have a tendency to view the entire episode as just another melodrama. This collision will create not a ripple effect, but a Tsunami. Against the legal backdrop, life in the software industry goes on. Bets are placed, code is written, and products are delivered. Many of the bets and much of the code are in Java.