Oh yeah, this is fun stuff (given that I am not either party, that is). As I recall from reading a while back, someone left some test code in the google product that was taken directly from Sun/Oracle code, which greatly complicated their defense when it was found that this code was deployed. Oops. That was supposed to be removed before delivery. That poor programmer in the trenches. He/She/They apparently did not grasp the big picture or magnitude of deploying such code. --dawn
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Wols Lists <[email protected]>wrote: > On 23/05/11 18:35, Dawn Wolthuis wrote: > > As an aside, I told Java students that they could apply to work on an > > android app rather than a standard JRE app for a Programming II course > last > > semester. Two (out of 13) of them did and I was very impressed. One > deployed > > to a phone, the other to an emulator. It isn't a piece of cake, but it > has > > some good libraries (spec'ing of screens using xml, for example). It is > an > > entirely different run-time engine, written by Google but not as a JVM, > so > > the legal side of this should be interesting to watch. --dawn > > The Oracle vs Google lawsuit is currently being tracked by Groklaw, so > if anyone is interested, that's a good place to find stuff. > > Cheers, > Wol > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > -- Dawn M. Wolthuis Take and give some delight today _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
