How easily people forget the history...

Gosling has quit Oracle so I don't understand his public views in this matter at all. Is he really that outraged that Google did an independent implementation of Java? It's hardly the first, nor the last.

I would be very surprised of Stroustrup expressed outrage in other implementations of C++, or if van Rossum thinks Pypy somehow abuses Python coders. After all, independent implementations is a maturity sign for computer technology. Most ideas doesn't reach that far which puts him together with just a handful other talented language designers in our age.

(In this particular case it is doubly astonishing. I hope nobody could reasonably expect Android to be a success on top of the mess that was J2ME. Even if they built something on top of Sun's code the result would still not run J2ME code.)