and in an interesting twist... HTML5 will become a fee-charging Oracle licensed technology, while Adobe continues to offer Flash clients for free...
I wonder what effect that would have on the iPhone vs Android situation? On 14 August 2010 19:17, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]>wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/14/10 20:02 , Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > > Am I dense, or is everyone just misinformed? > > > > Oracle attacked google on the basis of VM patents. > > > > How is this even remotely relevant to GWT? > > > David pointed out that there are some sort of VMs for JavaScript. I > think he has got a point, but we should better understand how > precisely focused the patents are on Java and Java-like VMs (David > pointed out the stuff about bytecode + native code mixed execution, > which is covered by one of the patents, and if I understand well is > also a feature of some JavaScript accelerators). If they have a broad > focus, even CLR and LLVM could be attacked. Now, I think many of us > think that this is pretty much a Oracle against Google thing, and the > patents are instrumental. But one might wonder which potential risk > there is for other stuff. > > - -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkxm3bMACgkQeDweFqgUGxddGACeLg6CdQKgeQ65QsZwW8YD9hqE > 2qoAoKz7GPUQI2WEDv5IcIzbGez9+rPZ > =+yWq > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > 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. > > -- Kevin Wright mail/google talk: [email protected] wave: [email protected] skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- 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.
