On 08/16/10 04:14 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
* 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.
Patents were filled in general years before the software/product are
released. Those patents concerned most likely to have filled years
before Androids was conceived. It is intellectual protection mechanism.
As a corporation, if you don't file patents, someone else will. If Sun
didn't file those patents, Google can certainly file them now and stop
everyone use to use Java if they wish to :)
But it does make it very difficult for FLOSS because every times you
develop something, it is most likely someone else has already filed the
patents, and you are at risks from being sued.
-Ghee
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