It's perfectly understandable to "feel wronged", but as the trial showed, this feeling was baseless. We still don't know if API's can be copyrighted, but it's now a fact according to the US legal courts that Google did nothing wrong.
-- Cédric On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Oscar Hsieh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
