Actually I pointed that out. However, the patents in question, which anyone can read, could, if you stretch them far enough, be used to sue Firefox, Opera, Microsoft, Apple, and again Google (for chrome). GWT is utterly unrelated to this, except that it'll become useless if as a result browsers start taking out their javascript engines, and/or putting back the rickety old slow ones.
Ordinarily I couldn't imagine a company being so stupid as to incur the wrath of the anonymous masses of the web, but Ellison is the kind of guy that would try. On Aug 14, 8:17 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/14/10 20:02 , Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:> Am I dense, or is everyone > just misinformed? > > > Oracle attacked google on the basis of VM patents. > > > How is this even remotely relevant to GWT? > > David pointed out that there are some sort of VMs for JavaScript. I > think he has got a point, but we should better understand how > precisely focused the patents are on Java and Java-like VMs (David > pointed out the stuff about bytecode + native code mixed execution, > which is covered by one of the patents, and if I understand well is > also a feature of some JavaScript accelerators). If they have a broad > focus, even CLR and LLVM could be attacked. Now, I think many of us > think that this is pretty much a Oracle against Google thing, and the > patents are instrumental. But one might wonder which potential risk > there is for other stuff. > > - -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkxm3bMACgkQeDweFqgUGxddGACeLg6CdQKgeQ65QsZwW8YD9hqE > 2qoAoKz7GPUQI2WEDv5IcIzbGez9+rPZ > =+yWq > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
