This is why, once it (the Oracle acquisition of Sun) was publicly announced, all of the cognoscenti were worried about what Oracle was going to do to the Java language and platform. But the government regulators were too easily appeased and convinced that it would not be a problem. Now that Larry E. has done this, we know better, right?
On Aug 13, 11:46 am, DanH <[email protected]> wrote: > Hard to say. I don't know if the tendency in lawsuits is to list the > most significant first, or the least significant. > > Can't speak to the possibility of copyright infringement. If the > developers of the Android environment have good documentation for > using "cleanroom" procedures that's a big help, but doesn't get them > out of the woods. Without that documentation it could be a bit rough. > > I do wish that Sun had fully opensourced and open licensed Java like > they were planning to several years back. I'm guessing the plan was > killed when Oracle began negotiating with them. > > On Aug 13, 1:18 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 8/13/10 19:08 , DanH wrote: > > > > Yeah, I saw the list of patents, and commented above that from the > > > titles they likely were pretty narrow. This is going to be an > > > angels- on-the-head-of a-pin battle. > > > To complete the scenario, I've been pointed to that in the complaint > > there's also a copyright violation allegation, regarding Java itself. > > It is not clear to what it refers to and I still believe that there > > are not Sun bits in Android. In any case, it is cited after the seven > > patents, so I think that the last ones are the real core of the case. > > > - -- > > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > > [email protected] > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > > iEYEARECAAYFAkxljGYACgkQeDweFqgUGxeG3ACfUTWGMGoaaXaIlTLRyBzkKO8l > > vZgAoIG/tPMa12OEydov+FzsM4p6Ml7w > > =Jlky > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
