-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/7/10 15:12 , BoD wrote: >> Well, do you think that if you do something against me, you're >> all the whole Italy? :-) > > No but my logic is if Oracle says something very broad like > (voluntarily exaggerating for the sake of the argument) "only > Oracle has the right to make a VM because we have the patent". Then > Android has a VM. And the VM comes from the Apache Harmony open > source project (I know this is not the case, just making a > point!). The logical conclusion is that the code implemented by > Apache is "illegal". Harmony does not provide any VM. It provides the runtime libraries. Apache Harmony is in the same bad fortune (that is, impossibility to access the TCK in a way that Apache considers convenient) as it was under Sun.
Then, the lawsuit included also some copyright issues and these might involve Harmony as well, but until we don't know something more, there's not much we can infer. BTW, do somebody knows whether the agenda for the trial has been already set? - -- 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/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyH3DwACgkQeDweFqgUGxflFwCdELAmXhv0LXGyfH5kQbVw+9QV HXkAoIYPlDe2/txh5xCDC+bD9Db9jhVZ =fKRy -----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.
