Google's Continued Fall from Grace

Neil McAllister writes on why Oracle is right to sue Google over its modified Java platform:

“Now if Microsoft wants to use Java, they will have to use the same Java everyone else does,” Sun vice president Rich Green said at the time. Should not Google be held to the same standard? Oracle thinks so, and like Sun of old, it has chosen a legal remedy.

If anyone is looking for proof coming from places other than Cupertino that Google is not viewed as a “don't be evil” company any longer, comparisons of its actions to some of Microsoft's antitrust debacles of the past ought to do the trick.

The question, though, remains: can anyone actually do what Google does better than Google?