Of course its about money. What other possible motive or reward could Oracle possible hope to achieve. Companies only exist to make money.
Android is not a cleanroom implementation, because there is no standard to implement. When something is a standard then by definition that is public and people can take it and build sommething. On the other hand, the Java API is Suns property, the define, change and control its direction and releases etc. We program to the product not the implementation. We have a license to use as it is. Is it not illegal to modify a java class and ship the java.*.class with a product. If i never used Java in my product name i still cant "alter" core java classes and ship them - because that work in part and whole, api and code inside is the property of Sun. -- 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.
