-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 8/16/2010 12:14 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> 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.
you don't seem to understand how this game is played. there is a very enlightening blog by james gosling explaining why you have to patent stuff: you have to play the patent game if you don't want to be sued to death. And if Sun thought Google was violating their copyright, then they had to sue else they risked being sued by their shareholders in turn. Come to think about it, I really don't understand why none of them actually sued. > > * 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAkxpWjkACgkQyH1sakKOL4w8sQD9ED3xLx7hwxaw9oS+Xyhf8IAx YYb43OwgE/fnCVnZ6nwA/j2itFwlJVU8SuTpgFHD9N5qpvi+4cZB+EzZsaY6r7BQ =9Or+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
