That's indeed the official position. But more than a few, in this forum and elsewhere, have assumed or speculated that oracle is trying to defend java as a single unforked platform, usually those who believe it is oracle and not google who should deserve the support of the community, or those who believe neither party should get any support. I'm trying to point out that if this is indeed what Oracle is trying to do, there's an alternative that I lined out in the OP that, if java had worked that way, would have made android feasible as merely a bunch of software built on top of "java" (TM). But java doesn't, and from a pragmatic viewpoint, its clear to me that google had to do what they did in order to make android a better platform.
Their unofficial position? Who knows. We can speculate, but that's all it'll be until Oracle publically throws some sort of demand on the table that isn't clearly just something to bargain away (which their current officially stated goal, in the suit, must be: They basically want all android phones confiscates, their roms yanked out and overwritten or burned, and the source code to be deleted). On Sep 12, 7:13 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On to how android and oracle could have gotten along, at least, if the > > idea is that oracle is protecting the "write once run anywhere" nature > > of java: > > I don't think they've ever claimed such a thing. > > The official position is that they're suing Google for infringing on a few > virtual machine patents. > > The unofficial position (well, my interpretation anyway) is that Oracle > bought Sun for the sole purpose of suing Google with the hope of making > money. They are a business company and they couldn't care less about Java or > developers. > > -- > Cédric -- 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.
