Microsoft and Sun came to an agreement, contracts were signed. Sun sued microsoft based on two things:
(A) Trademark law. Microsoft was calling something 'java' which wasn't up to spec. (B) Breach of contract. Contrast this to Oracle v. Google, which is based on only one issue (the copyright issue isn't in here, see next post): (A) Breach of some (ridiculously) broad patents, that appear to apply just as much to for example firefox's jit javascript engine. Not at all the same thing. There are no contracts between google and oracle/sun that are pertinent, and there's no breach of trademark law either. -- 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.
