You (Ignacio Marambio Catán) wrote: > 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.
You might even consider reading Jonathan I. Schwartz's last blog so far: http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/ Also covers copyright issues... Matthias -- Matthias Pfützner | Tel.: +49 700 PFUETZNER | Er meint wohl ein Brehn Lichtenbergstr.73 | mailto:matth...@pfuetzner.de | Schtorming. D-64289 Darmstadt | AIM: pfuetz, ICQ: 300967487 | Germany | http://www.pfuetzner.de/matthias/ | aus: Asterix Band XXX. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
