> From: Edward Ned Harvey [mailto:sh...@nedharvey.com] > > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100815110101756
The points I'm taking away are: * Google clearly understood they were entering questionable territory. Or else they wouldn't have bothered with the clean-room, and wouldn't have bothered entering negotiations with Sun. * Sun clearly had the intent to sue, or else they wouldn't have bothered filing all those patents, and wouldn't have bothered entering negotiations with Google. * Although java grants everyone the license to develop applications using java for free, and distribute them etc... Java does not grant developers the right to modify or reverse engineer java itself. You have to pay Sun/Oracle for priority influence over the future of java, and for "special" releases that are customized to your requirements. Put simply: Google wanted java. They wanted to customize and modify java itself. They didn't want to pay. They chose to get in a fight over it. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
