Let's also not forget that Google are no longer worthy of blind faith support.

When Google do wrong they should be brought to account, same as any other company. I'm no fan of software patents and hope they no longer exist in future but copyright is another matter and Google are most likely bang to rights here, otherwise Oracle wouldn't be going down this route. They're not stupid or desperate, like SCO.

I also think this case will have little if any bearing on other companies and their continued or future use of Java (unless they choose to copy the Java documentation and code while trying to pass it off as their own, of course).