On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Mirek M. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Varun, everyone, > > 2010/8/25 Varun Mittal <[email protected]> > >> Oracle anywayz filed a suit only against Google. > > > Oracle filed a patent suit against Google's implementation of Oracle's > open-source Java in Google's open-source Android OS. How does that not > undermine Oracle's relationship to open-source?
Well Google didn't use open source to start with. When Java was "liberated" it created an OpenJDK platform. Danger (the original company that created android) forked J2ME which is NOT free. So they had that risk from the start, they just bet that Sun would never sue them for that. >> >> Any Open Source project is dependent on its community and not on a company >> for its survival. > > > You're right. That's one of the best things about open-source -- a good > project never dies (unless it's killed by patent suits). Well the linux kernel is "killed" by patents from microsoft, yet I havent seen it slow down by any means. Remember Microsoft lawsuits to TomTom and HTC over patents over the Linux Kernel and the indemnification contracts against Linux distros such as Novell and others? > > >> Secondly market has enough MS hater corporates who would >> like to support anything which hurt MS on its one of the most profitable >> products. >> > > Actually, most people hate MS because of its "evil" monopolistic tactics > used in killing the competition. That's exactly how Oracle is now behaving: > it's attacking one of the most successful fruits of open-source because of a > ridiculous patent suit concerning, surprisingly, its open-source Java. And > that really makes me move away from Oracle... > > Anyway, I really hope OOo is branched by some other company that will really > dedicate time and (donated or ad-gained) money to the suite, really make it > the best possible office suite ever, take over its massive user base. > Well OpenOffice.org is also carry by Novell, IBM and other companies, however that is not the point. OpenOffice.org is not modifying Java and forking it, also there is really no connection between Google's success and Oracle lawsuit. After all if you were only watching newspapers, this lawsuit came 1 week after Eric Schmidt said that they will have 1 billion Android phones in less than 5 years. This was just an invite for companies to capitalize out of others success. The "medium" which they choose, possibly is the quickest and more aggressive. In the end, is just business as usual. -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español http://es.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
