What a bonehead move. So Oracle was either 1) after the Android gem in the first place or 2) waited around the honey-pot until 200K devices ships daily. Either way, it's a totally destructive behavior from a company who should focus more on innovating. Another incentive to ditch Oracle at work ASAP!
/Casper On Aug 13, 8:24 am, Neil Bartlett <[email protected]> wrote: > Morons. Utter morons. > > From a very cursory scan of the complaint, it would seem impossible to > implement ANY kind of Virtual Machine without infringing these > patents. So one wonders why Oracle doesn't go after Microsoft for the > CLR... > > Neil > > On Aug 13, 4:26 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > text of the complaint:http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20013546-265.html > > > On Aug 12, 8:29 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I really, _REALLY_ didn't imagine this was actually going to happen, > > > but the concern raised a few javaposses back has come true. > > > > My immediate gut reaction to this news: WTF is Ellison doing? I know > > > oracle likes the whole "screw the long term, we wanna see cash and we > > > wanna see it now" scheme, but stop shooting yourself in the foot. > > > Pretty please. > > > >http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/08/12/financial... -- 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.
