Agree, James Gosling talked about this in his blog http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/my_attitude_on_oracle_v
"In Dan Farber's recent article on CNET titled "Oracle v. Google: Ex-Sun execs on opposite sides"<http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57423538-94/oracle-google-trial-puts-ex-sun-execs-on-opposite-sides/?tag=rb_content;contentBody>he got my position on the case totally backwards and totally misinterpreted my comments. Just because Sun didn't have patent suits in our genetic code doesn't mean we didn't feel wronged. While I have differences with Oracle, in this case they are in the right. Google totally slimed Sun. We were all really disturbed, even Jonathan: he just decided to put on a happy face and tried to turn lemons into lemonade, which annoyed a lot of folks at Sun. " It is no surprise that people in Sun don't like about this at all. People in Google probably dont like Amazon fork android neither. On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:59 AM, Fabrizio Giudici < [email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > [email protected] > http://tidalwave.it - http://fabriziogiudici.it > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <javaposse%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/javaposse?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en>. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "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.
