I'm virtually positive the copyright infringement thing is just the usual monkeyhouse method: Throw as much excrement at the wall, see what sticks. i.e. they threw it in there, because, why not?
Also, it's the same asshats as the SCO case. They have a hard on for claiming copyright infringement when that is clearly not happening. On Aug 16, 10:36 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/16/10 15:13 , mP wrote:> The patents discuss what could best be > described not as Java the > > language but more or less Java the platform the JVM. Using "Go" > > instead of "*.java" still does not change the fact that Android is > > based on java. It may not be called java but without what java has > > built in the past its nothing. If nots java then why does it use > > the core java packages and other platform like concepts. Are we > > saying if you call it something else on the outside but copying > > everything else, its not "pirating" - if my friend copies microsoft > > office for me but writes MyFriendsOfficeSuite and does a bit of > > binary editing whereever "Microsoft" and "Office" appear and > > replaces them, its not a direct copy? > > You're confusing things. As far as we know, Android is a "clean room" > implementation, and they did not copy any bit (of course, the trial > might prove this wrong). The correct comparison is to say that your > friend writes from scratch an application that can read, edit and > write Office documents. > > In any case, back to the original topic of this thread, copyright > infringements apart (of which, after some days, nobody has been able > to guess what they could be), all the patent infringements are about > the VM, as we said. If having a VM on Android is not important, Google > could keep Java as well, just providing a compiler that doesn't pass > through Java bytecode, but compiles directly to native code. We're > going to loose a lot of benefits, but it's doable. Instead, if having > a VM is so important, they have to win the trial or get to a deal. > > - -- > 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/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkxpoUgACgkQeDweFqgUGxdQOgCgtQO50AwqyGyNsMhHRLluULtC > FUwAoKhHCs4ZnpNmJKO2Dw10fM4mhmzF > =A1g8 > -----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.
