Most of the patents involved were methods and procedures for how something is done. All the patents appeared old with the latest being 2005. You could make the case that since Sun didn't defend these patents for years, there is not much Oracle can do about it now. Patent law is really strange in this regard, but it is my understanding that you have to do things to defend your patents. Letting them sit for 5 years and then being bought by someone else and then defended may not sit well with the judges.
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Mark Derricutt <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that's kinda irrelevant ( the java source anyway ) as some of the > patents I've seen talk about class processing ( conversion to dalvik ), > permissions/acls and things that are more of a VM/toolchain side of things. > > Having the code in clojure, scala or the like would still involve the same > - UNLESS someone rewrote the scala/clojure compilers to output Dalvik > bytecode directly... > > -- > Pull me down under... > > > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:02 PM, JamesJ <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So, the obvious solution is for Google to stick it to 'em, ditch Java, >> adopt another of the JVM languages (Scala, etc) so the port will be >> easy. (Wink Wink) It will just be one more step for Java towards >> irrelevance in the mobile computing space. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en.
