It could be viewed as Google showing its hardware vendors that it has some skin in the game. I'm sure Google/Motorola will be a prime target for patent attacks. Thus Google will be in the trenches fighting patent attacks shoulder-to-shoulder with its vendors.
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No... but it does mean it'll be hard for them to sue someone for also making a device that looks just like the teleporter from Star Trek.
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what about other JVM languages?
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