If folks would rather keep discussion to the existing threads, let me know.
Here's a post by a JRuby engineer about the actual meat of the 7 patents Oracle is suing Google with. He basically concludes that Oracle doesn't have a leg to stand on, but that this doesn't necessarily mean that google will simply go to court and win the case: http://blog.headius.com/2010/08/my-thoughts-on-oracle-v-google.html One of Gosling's own is in there, as well as a patent or two that do not seem to apply. One is a patent that seems to apply only insofar that android is based on linux and linux uses forking to spawn new processes. The patent was filed in 2003, which means that either (A) a judge rules this isn't quite that all-encompassing, or (B) he does, in which case it'll be thrown out immediately for prior art. A second one involves mixed mode VMs which is probably the most meaty patent in the set, but its just not something android actually does. The remaining 5 seems as ridiculous as one-click, but, you know, its the US patent system. Reason and Sanity have no place there. Example: Compressing many small files not on a file-by-file basis but by looking at all of them. The only reason this won't be thrown out based on prior art (tar cvfz anyone?) on day 1 is that it makes explicit references to class files, i.e. executable code. In fact, this one is IMO the scariest of all of them, but that's mostly a comment on how weak the other 6 are. NB: His opinion that the nuclear option can't happen does not mention that Ellison and Jobs are big friends, but nevertheless, killing android, severely harming java-the-language in the process? Did Jobs save ellison's life 5 times over or something? So, yeah, that remains unlikely. -- 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.
