That’s essentially the claim Oracle is making when it says it owns the copyright ... If it holds true for Java, it will hold true for any programming language, from any source.

In effect, they act as translators between Java byte-code and the physical hardware's machine language. In theory, then, any Java program only needs to be compiled once and should run on any JVM ...

Oracle Corporation, which owns Java, offers documentation ... Syntax is the style in which a programming language is written. Java has a syntax common to other popular programming languages ...

Oracle now owns Java. Schmidt said that based on his understanding of Sun's licensing requirements for Java, Google's use of the programming language's tools in Android without a license was ...

19 June 2000 - Some holdouts remain: People who question whether Java can replace COBOL, C++ or Visual Basic as a language for mission-critical, big-time business applications.