On Aug 14, 9:01 am, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> The "simple" explanation: This is what it looks like: A play to
> squeeze money out of google, and probably later on other companies, to
> start paying for the rights to use anything that smells like a VM.
> They'd be going after LLVM and the CLR next, maybe, and/or web
> browsers (javascript engines, especially the modern JITting ones, use
> a lot of relevant tech that seems to be covered by these patents,
> mostly because they are ridiculously broad. Think one click patent!)

How about Flash Player?  I don't really understand legal aspect of it
all, but could that be considered a VM also?

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