Ok, I do admit I'v been making comments on things I have not fully researched or understood (thats how I roll baby). But, just the smell of this thing is making many of us hope the elevator stops soon.
On Aug 15, 5:23 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/15/10 01:37 , Christian Catchpole 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?" > > But it's different. If you download the OpenJDK, modify and > redistribute it you can't be prosecuted on patents because you're > given patent protection by the license. I think we should be positive > on this, otherwise the whole open source concept could be attacked. > Indeed, the licensing guys thought about the patent problem, of > course. What you - according to Oracle - can't do is to use parts of > Java (in the broad sense) in something that hasnt't been derived by > the OpenJDK. > > - -- > 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/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkxnld4ACgkQeDweFqgUGxc8CwCaAlxxQWO91xvkec5PP/Bty+jR > AykAoLVA1Yd2la5f3lV68egOkyMPw6oH > =nKEx > -----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.
