Ni ada artikel yg menarik jg dr forbes: http://blogs.forbes.com/taylorbuley/2010/08/13/android-lawsuit-is-really-just-oracle-flirting-with-google/
*Android Lawsuit Is Really Just Oracle Flirting With Google* Image via Wikipedia When Google joined the Open Invention Network and pledged to protect Linux in August 2007, six months after Oracle had done the same, Jerry Rosenthal, then-CEO of Open Invention, told CMP TechWeb that no patent holder has ever sued Linux developers or a Linux distributor and that none likely ever will. That changed last year when Microsoft sued Linux-based GPS maker TomTom for using Microsoft’s proprietary filesystem; for those counting these kind of lawsuits on one hand, Oracle has just lifted the second finger. On Thursday the multibillion database and server giant filed a complaint against Google in the Northern District of California. It accuses Google of infringing on seven of its software patents in the Java and Linux-based Android mobile operating system. “Java” is a programming language that was invented at Sun, a company that Oracle later bought. “Android” is an operating system written in Java mostly by a company bought by Google. Android runs on a virtual machine that’s powered by a Linux “kernel” engine. Java and Android are both generally governed by a license called “GNU” which means, more or less, that you can use the tools freely to make software but that the things you develop with them are not necessarily themselves free. It’s the latter that concerns this case. Although the lawsuit appears to be a break from a much ballyhooed Linux alliance, I think don’t think that’s necessarily the case. Despite popular belief that the finger Oracle has raised is a middle one and pointed at the open source community, I think it’s quite the opposite: Oracle suing Google over its Java-based mobile operating system is like an only child finally adopting his first dog. When Oracle found Android it didn’t know any better than to hug it so tight that it looks like he’ll never let it go. If I’m right, the forced friendship couldn’t come at a better time for Oracle. Rival business software giant SAP made its move into mobile in May. They bought Sybase for $5.8 billion, a company that makes, among other things, databases for mobile devices. Hewlett-Packard, a rival hardware maker through Sun (for which Oracle paid $7.4 billion) is a potential SAP partner. H-P paid $1.2 billion to acquire Palm in April and needs to make that money back somehow, presumably by developing Palm products for mobile business — a Palm device for which SAP could potentially develop mobile business software. Oracle has a lot to gain by keeping multibillion dollar SAP out of new enterprise markets, but first needs to develop mobile business products of its own. To do that, it will likely need to pick a platform and stick with it. Rule out Palm and for the U.S. market you have Research in Motion, Apple iOS, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and Google’s Android. Research in Motion’s once-dominant smartphone position appears to be flagging but hopes that the new BlackBerry OS 6 will put it on an even playing field. By many accounts it probably won’t. You can also rule out Windows Mobile as a potential platform for Oracle: Microsoft has database software that competes with its bread and butter. That leaves open development-based Android, based on Java, and Apple’s closed iOS platform based on a software language called Objective-C. MeeGo, a free Android alternative backed by Intel, Nokia and the Linux Foundation, can’t compete with these two on popularity. I can tell you firsthand that iOS software is not the easiest thing to get up and running on a budget. Aside from having to run a modern Intel-based Mac upgraded to the latest 10.6 Mac operating system and licensed through Apple’s $99 a head developer program, Objective-C is quite difficult for the uninitiated despite abounding free resources like the advanced Stanford iPhone programming lectures on iTunes U. Android’s Java is, despite being derived from the same language predecessor as Objective-C, easier to use. In fact it’s the first real language they teach you in introductory programming at Stanford. Most medium businesses probably employ somebody who knows their way around Java. Best of all: It doesn’t cost a dime to test a Java application on an Android Device. While has Apple gobbled away a large chunk of the premium smartphone market, Google’s Android has been meanwhile fattening itself on the scraps. Adoption rates are accelerating and, thanks in part to the ease of Java, businesses are increasingly pledging their allegiance to Android and eager to talk about it. Oracle recently called Java one of Sun’s crown jewels. Java is behind all kinds of middleware fortunes, such as RedHat’s JBoss and VMware’s Spring Source lines. (Interestingly, even much of SAP writes its software in Java.) Yet here’s Oracle suing Google over Android, an operating system that has what it takes to galvanize the popular resurgence of Java. Is Oracle trying to destroy Java-based Android for cash or in beneficence to their technology competitors? I don’t think so. Patent trolls use patent portfolios to make money from existing products, not by creating new ones. I don’t think this lawsuit makes Oracle a patent troll. (Plaintiffs generally prefer “patent defender” to “patent troll,” anyways.) My bet is that Oracle’s infringement suit is an attempt to guarantee a claim a mobile operating system on which it can build its applications. If that’s true, Oracle is not trying to constrict Android — just bear-hug the platform into submitting to some yet-to-be-announced business idea. One piece of evidence in support of my theory is that Oracle didn’t file suit in the Eastern District of Texas, a leading venue for these kinds of cases. Aside from being part of the copyright-friendly Fifth Circuit, its jurors are known for handing out large amounts of money to the people who brings these kinds of suits. If Oracle was looking for money, their counsel surely be aware of this place. Patent infringement suits were brought against Oracle in the Eastern District of Texas by a company called “ipernica” in October 2008 and “i2 Technologies” in April 2009. I bet Oracle has office somewhere nearby. My best guess is that Oracle is trying to squeeze some sort of cross-licensing deal out of Google, that the companies will reach some out-of-court settlement and that nothing will change except maybe Oracle will end up joining Android’s Open Handset Alliance. If that’s all true, the only question is what Google’s going to do about it. Read the full complaint here. These are the patents cited: * Protection domains to provide security in a computer system and Controlling access to a resource by Li Gong * Method and apparatus for pre-processing and packaging class files by Nedim Fresko and Richard Tuck * System and method for dynamic preloading of classes through memory space cloning of a master runtime system process by Nedim Fresko (who appears to have 27 patents to his name) * Method and apparatus for resolving data references in generated code by James Gosling * Interpreting functions utilizing a hybrid of virtual and native machine by Lars Bak and Robert Griesemer 2010/8/17 Agus Hamonangan <[email protected]>: > http://goo.gl/0CoO > > CALIFORNIA - Secara mengejutkan Oracle melakukan gugatan kepada Google > terkait masalah pelanggaran hak paten di Android. Menanggapi hal > tersebut, pihak Google malah bersikap biasa saja dan tidak > terburu-buru mengambil keputusan. > > Menurut Google, perusahannya belum mengambil sikap resmi terkait > masalah tersebut. Namun, raksasa software tersebut merasa kecewa dan > menganggap apa yang dilakukan oleh Oracle tidak mendasar. > > "Kami kecewa mengetahui Oracle memilih untuk menyerang baik kepada > Google maupun komunitas open source Java dengan tuntutan yang tidak > berdasar," tulis Google dalam pernyataan Google yang dikutipTech > Crunch, Senin (16/8/2010). > > Menurut Google, pihaknya sangat mempertahankan standar open source dan > terus bekerja sama dengan industri untuk mengembangkan platform > Android. > > Sebelumnya diberitakan, Oracle Corp mengajukan gugatan paten dan > pelanggaran hak cipta terhadap Google Inc atas software Android, > dengan alasan teknologi diperoleh dari akuisisi Sun Microsystems Inc > pada Januari lalu. > > > Perusahaan itu sendiri, telah mengajukan gugatan yang didaftarkan ke > pengadilan federal California, Amerika Serikat (AS). Namun demikian, > Oracle tidak mengatakan apakah akan meminta pengadilan untuk > menghentikan penggunaan penemuan atau sedang mencari kompensasi uang > tunai. > (tyo) > > -- > Salam, > > > Agus Hamonangan > > http://groups.google.com/group/id-android > http://groups.google.com/group/id-gtug > Gtalk : agus.hamonangan > Follow : @agushamonangan > E-mail : [email protected] > > -- > "Indonesian Android Community [id-android]" > > Join: http://groups.google.com/group/id-android/subscribe?hl=en-GB > Moderator: [email protected] > Peraturan Jual dan Kloteran ID-Android http://goo.gl/azW7 > ID Android Developer: http://groups.google.com/group/id-android-dev > ID Android Surabaya: http://groups.google.com/group/id-android-sby > ID Android on FB: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=112207700729 > -- Kind Regards - Lorensius W. L. 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