> Oracle sues Google over Java! > > Un-believable! Now it is proven what Oracle's > intentions are! Is Java free??? What is the future of > Java now??? So much for pro-open source attitude! It > doesn't exist -maybe it never did after Oracle > acquired Sun. Will anyone trust Oracle any more? > > Too bad. Too bad I had to witness this.
I don't know what you are talking about. In developing Android, Google could have played a good Open Source citizen and worked with Sun under the terms of the Java Open Source license to create a win (Google)-win (Sun, now Oracle)-win (end users) situation. But, no, Google had to generate a false impression that it is big enough to have invented a brand new operating system. By not honoring Sun's Java Open Source license, and considering the immense intellectual property portfolio that Sun has developed associated with the Java technology, it is essentially inevitable that Google's Android will bump into some of Sun's patents. And in the process of writing the Android code, it is also not totally unlikely that (keeping in mind that, because of Google's success, we tend to forget that Google is indeed a very young company) someone might have gotten sloppy and some of Sun's Java code got "pasted' into Android within the meaning of copyright violation. But as far as the consumers are concerned, we (I own two Droid phones) are suffering from the relative immaturity that the Android OS shows. I am sure things would have been much better if Google could be a little bit more honest and a little bit less arrogant. It was my understanding that Rich Green was already very gung-ho about bringing this law suit against Google but was shot down by the ponytail--unfortunately Green lost his fight and had to leave Sun. (Most of us probably still remember that Dr. Green led Sun's efforts in the previous Java law suit against Microsoft, resulting in a multi-billion settlement which kept Sun afloat in the past couple of years.) Who knows, Sun might still be around if Rich Green were the CEO instead of the ponytail. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
