The microsoft case was a bit different. They implemented their own incompatible version of java claiming it was java. Google never called android java - not to consumers nor developers.
On Aug 17, 2010 11:28 PM, "Sean Comerford" <sean.c.comerf...@gmail.com> wrote: The big thing I keep seeing in all this "concern about Oracle" is that people continually forget or ignore WHY Sun and Java is now owned by Oracle: Sun focused on the wrong things (including being OVERLY concerned with the community) which led to them losing money year after year after year basically from 2001 til the end. And like it or not, companies exist to make money (which benefits us by allowing us to get paid to work for them). So yes, Oracle is going to change some stuff.... and in fact they MUST change the things that made Sun non-profitable. And unfortunately the things that make companies profitable are not always "community" friendly. We as engineers love "open source" b/c it means our projects are more profitable and we look like heroes which leads to big raises + bonuses. But there wasn't much profit in that model for Sun and Oracle is smart enough to know there won't be for them either. As far as the JDK lawsuit, like most things in life, I suspect the truth will end being somewhere in the middle (part money grab by Oracle, part legitimate beef against bastardization of technology they paid a fortune to acquire). But I seem to recall Sun suing a company several years back on similar grounds... and in that case there was no community angst b/c the target of the suit was everyone's favorite "evil software tycoon" Micro$oft. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Fabrizio Giudici < fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > > > ---... -- 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.
