-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/6/10 19:19 , BoD wrote: > Excellent episode as always :) > > 1/ At some point Joe and also Dick if I'm not mistaken say that > Google shouldn't say that the law suit is against Open Source and > that saying so is purely a PR move. But since Android is based on > the Apache Harmony Project, don't you think it *is* fair to say > that therefore, attacking Android is also attacking Apache Harmony? > (And thus, "the Open Source community"?) IANAL but it seems that at > least some of the patents they claim concern the 'Harmony' part of > Android - and so, if they win the law suit, what does it mean for > Harmony? Well, do you think that if you do something against me, you're all the whole Italy? :-) > > 3/ At some point it was said that what Google did was no different > from what Microsoft did (re. the 1997 Sun vs Microsoft case). But > this *was* different, the 1997 lawsuit was about "trademark > infringement, false advertising, breach of contract, unfair > competition, interference with prospective economic advantage, and > inducing breach of contract". Basically Microsoft called their > version of Java "Java" and they didn't have the right to do so (by > contract). But - and I think Dick knows this all too well ;) - > Google made sure to be very careful to not call their version > "Java". And so all they could find was silly (imho) patents claims > (actually this case is also a Copyright one but it seems we don't > know much details about this part...) I agree that the technicalities are so different that the comparison is difficult to do. Genericaly speaking, I think it's fair to think that Google is trying to create its own Java-like ecosystem such as Microsoft did.
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