Google tried that and ended up on the wrong end of a patent lawsuit. The Java community is just going to keep using OpenJDK like they do now. As evil as Snoracle is being, it's mostly a theoretical problem given that so few people use Harmony.

Android is based on Harmony...

http://apache-harmony.blogspot.com/2007/11/google-android-ap...

... for better or worse.

Uh, Android uses Harmony (or a subset thereof). I think that's a rather important detail to understanding what's happening here.

I don't think it has much to do with Android, for two reasons. Google doesn't care whether Harmony gets TCK-certified or not, and the Apache-Sun spat dates from early 2007, before Android was even announced. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Harmony#Difficulties_to_...

The article explicitly says that that isn't true (on page 2):

"It was thought that Google engineers used some of Project Harmony's code for the project, but the ASF has subsequently debunked this notion."