-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/16/10 15:13 , mP wrote: > The patents discuss what could best be described not as Java the > language but more or less Java the platform the JVM. Using "Go" > instead of "*.java" still does not change the fact that Android is > based on java. It may not be called java but without what java has > built in the past its nothing. If nots java then why does it use > the core java packages and other platform like concepts. Are we > saying if you call it something else on the outside but copying > everything else, its not "pirating" - if my friend copies microsoft > office for me but writes MyFriendsOfficeSuite and does a bit of > binary editing whereever "Microsoft" and "Office" appear and > replaces them, its not a direct copy? > You're confusing things. As far as we know, Android is a "clean room" implementation, and they did not copy any bit (of course, the trial might prove this wrong). The correct comparison is to say that your friend writes from scratch an application that can read, edit and write Office documents.
In any case, back to the original topic of this thread, copyright infringements apart (of which, after some days, nobody has been able to guess what they could be), all the patent infringements are about the VM, as we said. If having a VM on Android is not important, Google could keep Java as well, just providing a compiler that doesn't pass through Java bytecode, but compiles directly to native code. We're going to loose a lot of benefits, but it's doable. Instead, if having a VM is so important, they have to win the trial or get to a deal. - -- 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/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxpoUgACgkQeDweFqgUGxdQOgCgtQO50AwqyGyNsMhHRLluULtC FUwAoKhHCs4ZnpNmJKO2Dw10fM4mhmzF =A1g8 -----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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
