On 23 August 2010 14:36, Gerald Begumisa <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Paul Bagyenda <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> >> http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/why-oracle-was-right-sue-google-392-1 > > An interesting viewpoint. I also found the comment by "JustUsChickens" > (funny name) very interesting: > > --- > ... > Microsoft made this same mistake and paid for it years ago and promptly > dropped JAVA nearly altogether in favor of their very own language, C#, > which miraculously, hee-yuk, looks pretty much like JAVA. Having been burned > by their lawsuit with Sun, Microsoft learned their lesson about an "open" > language, which is that the "owner" of the "open" language will come after > you with their hands out if you start to make money with "their" "open > language". > ... > -- > > Regards, > Gerald >
As I remember, (and I haven't had time to research it, so Cavin may flame me, but his emails are being deleted anyway :-) ), Microsoft lost that case because of their policy of “embrace, extend and extinguish”. At the time their business model was to wait for a technology to develop, if it was popular, they would embrace it, add in some proprietary extensions and then ban anyone else from using these extensions. What they did was to call it another name with J at the start, and added in some proprietary extensions. Sun won the case, which was very useful to the open source world - though java wasn't open at the time. Thanks Tim -- WebERP Africa Ltd +447710427049 +256752963327 +255784602561 www.weberpafrica.com _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
