On Thu, 24 May 2012 10:37:19 +0200, Kevin Wright
<[email protected]> wrote:
Not ignorance. Google showed evidence that it actually had Sun's
*blessing*
for its work on Android, everyone was excited about the potential for the
Java ecosystem. This is a far cry from Sun being silent on the matter
Honestly, this is ridiculous. Android has been the JME killer, that is one
of the few direct areas of profits by Sun for Java. I can't understand how
one could really think that Sun was really blessing the operation. This
also contradicts the fact that there were negotiations between Sun and
Google (if Sun didn't want to sell a license and was pretty happy with
that, there were no need for negotiations). And doesn't explain why at a
certain point Google's management gave the instructions to search for
alternatives to Java. CEO's praise about Android was just the way in which
Sun was trying to put it in diplomacy, avoiding to add to the damage the
possible spread of FUD of Java being in decline. And the relationships
between the two companies behind the scenes were very bad in the last
years.
This not to say that I disagree with the decision of the court - it's
legal stuff I can't speak in this field. I just find illogical that the
decision has been made on that premise. The legal world is really a
parallel universe.
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