yes I don't think the *actual* damage to google will be another other then comically insignificant. I can't see how either side would benefit.
All Oracle are doing are making people nervous, confirming fears, and generally causing a whole lot of frustration when everyone knows there can be no benefit. At first I thought it may have been a re-assertion of the "one java" portability, which whilst I don't agree with personally could almost make a tiny bit of sense. But this, no... it is madness - the thing is I can't imagine how this could be good for Oracle at all. really no chance of short term gain, and certainly a good chance of long term damage to a technology stack that is critical to them. (I will refrain from the doucheyness of standing behind patents as there is plenty said about that). On Aug 13, 3:55 pm, Robert Casto <[email protected]> wrote: > 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%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups > > .com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- > Robert Castowww.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.
