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> Realistically, the next step you will see, unless something changes, is that they will start going after people for API duplication. They have precedent (currently) on their side in the US.

IANAL, but since they already released the API as open-source under the Apache 2.0 license, this avenue is closed off to them.

The API is implemented on the server side; the licensing of the MongoDB drivers is irrelevant.

Arguendo: Cloud providers seem to be assuming that the development ecosystem belongs to them. They are extracting tons of money. Why don’t they just accept that hosting storage and compute will become commodity services, driving margins toward zero, and give up?

Plenty of reasonable players will touch Oracle v. Google going forward. I’m as eager to debate the opinion as other counsel. But procedural history demonstrates directly, not theoretically, that it’s effective against tech giants.

In the matter of API Owner v. Google, if API Owner touches that “third rail”, Google gets the shock.

By "they" do you mean Mongodb?