FUnny..But the point is.. Google is trying to sort of use GWT as a kind of JRE or mybe JDK technology..reshaping the package ,tweak it and then promote it in its own brand..oracle would hate this and of course larry can be assured to pounce on this.. i m not surprised by these events - a little confused why OSS is being dragged into this..
regards, jd On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Christian Catchpole <christ...@catchpole.net> wrote: > Could you argue that Open Sourcing technology that is protected by > patents is a form of entrapment? Sun did this, and Oracle may not > have done the same but that's what they purchased. > > "Your Honour. We attempted to protect our patent by encourage people > to download the source, modify it and redistribute it. How were we > expected to know they might actually do it?" > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
