An 'interesting' slide deck from Oracle, thankfully I'm never likely to be sat in front of somebody presenting all 91 slides!
The reader is left with the impression that Google duplicated Java - Oracle conveniently ignores the fact that the Apache Harmony project did much of the work before Android was available even as an emulator to developers. Harmony is still available even if it was retired in November, so where is Oracle's copyright infringement action against Harmony? Can somebody comment on US copyright law - are APIs able to be protected by copyright? Slide 83 says that the community has been harmed. I personally don't think the Java community has been harmed - if anything, the reverse is true because Android has kept Java alive and well on mobile, and given it a relevance that will persist for a decade or two at least. Sun weren't about to address the mess that is J2ME and Oracle would have come to the party too late - quite aside from the debate around if they would have done anything at all because of the long lead time, cost and risks involved with developing a new ME platform when it was never going to make it into iOS or Windows Phone. I'm sure that Oracle has taken the best quotes they can find that, in isolation, paint the worst picture (I would if I were in their position) but presented in this way it does make for uncomfortable reading, page 52 included... On Apr 17, 5:47 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/features/opening-slides-1592541.pdf > > Page 52 -- 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.
