> From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- > discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jussi Nieminen > > 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?
Apparently, this started with Sun, before Oracle acquired them. "Oracle's lawsuit was filed only after the failure of [...] licensing negotiations with Google that began long before Sun sold itself..." "But the truly interesting question isn't why Oracle sued Google. It's why Google let themselves be sued, [...] from Google's perspective, if you can't independently develop the way you want to, it's worth going through litigation to establish your right to do so." "When Google developed Android, it included a Java compatible technology called Dalvik with the phone OS. Dalvik was developed as a "clean room" version of Java, meaning Google built it from the ground up without using any Sun technology or intellectual property, said Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney." "If indeed none of the Sun employees that ended up at Google worked on this, and it's built from the ground up without any Sun technology or IP, on what basis can Oracle prevail? Perhaps Oracle figures no room at Google is clean enough. And of course clean room means nothing when it comes to patents." http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100815110101756 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
