> From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- > discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ignacio Marambio Catán > > On 8/16/2010 12:14 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. > > 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.
That doesn't disagree with what I said. I said Sun clearly had the intent to sue, even before they were acquired by oracle. Everything you said seems to agree with that. But it's not copyright that's in question here. (Google protected themselves pretty well by clean-room developing.) It's patent law that's relevant here. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
