Oracle haters keep bringing this up, it doesn't make any sense.

SQL is an international standard, that one needs to pay for, it isn't available for free.

Oracle already pays for SQL certifications, unlike Google does for Java.

Could you elaborate???

Somebody speculated that the lawsuit was used by Oracle to establish firm boundaries in what can be considered a copyright infringement, with the intent to implement Amazon/GCE APIs for drop-in compatibility for their cloud offering. So they tried all kinds of ridiculous stuff to see what works/what doesn't in order to properly cover their backs while "stealing" other APIs.

Given that Google helped sink Sun by ripping them off, and Sun wasn't in the position to pay for lawyers, to apply the same medicine that they did to Microsoft....

James Gosling interview, at 57:42

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYw3X4RZv6Y

"unwilling to help us pays the bills", so nice for the Do No Evil company.

Oracle does pay for their ANSI/ISO SQL certifications.