On Nov 26, 2:02 pm, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not about the size of any license fee. > > Even if Oracle and Google come to some agreement whereby Google pays $0.00 > in licensing, it still completely undermines the whole basis of open source. > Fork Android and you'd have to negotiate your own license fee payments with > Oracle - they have you by the short and curlies...
This is against the open source philosophy, but I guess it would be fine with both Google and Oracle. Oracle getting more money is fine with them. And Google doesn't need Android to be the default search engine on a mobile phone or display ads in apps or even promote its services (see the iPhone for all these points). I think Android is the most useful to Google with the proprietary Google services on top of Android (market, maps, mail) which you only get when you've been deemed worthy/compatible by Google - any forks (such as the OPhone) are not (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/07/androids-ascent- in-china-is-not-elevating-google.ars). So anything that makes these forks more unattractive / more expensive than "Google Android" is fine with Google, too. -- 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.
