Out of curiosity, in all of this, we're absolutely certain no former Sun engineers, fresh from patenting a concept at Sun (or working on said patented code) moved to Google and reimplemented the same thing the same way?
On Aug 16, 10:04 am, Andrew <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? -- 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.
