-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/17/10 14:55 , Casper Bang wrote: > So what you are effectively saying is that there are two likely > outcomes: > > 1) Oracle helps create a new modern runtime profile compatible > with Android (Java Android Edition) a la JME and licenses the > old-fashioned way they have always done it. > > 2) Google dumps Dalvik and forks OpenJDK instead, which satisfies > Oracle and provides patent immunity at the same time. > > Bummer, I rather like the speed of a fast trace-based hybrid like > Dalvik. Not sure I'd like a server-grade VM like HotSpot crippling > my phone. No. I don't see those as the two unique outcomes. Google might as well go on with Android no less no more than it's doing now, perhaps with some integration, once it has allowed Oracle to enter the business. There are plenty of ways to make the current Android comply with the Java(TM) licensing.
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