What happens if Oracle doesn't win the lawsuit? Maybe Google wins and sues Oracle for irreparable damages (lost time, market share, client confidence etc).
Nobody really knows what will happen - it's all speculation On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Fabrizio Giudici < fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 9/7/10 11:22 , Casper Bang wrote: > > > > What cash? You can not expect Google to have bought Sun just because > > they happen to use some of their open source technology. > Honestly, for the few (basically zero) things that I can understand of > business, Google might have done a big mistake, really. Sun was bought > for $6/7M, right? If Oracle wins, that is they force a settle down, I > could expect that Google will pay something in the magnitude of the > $M, and they will have to share their future revenues on Android, > which will be further $M in a few years, I suppose. In addition, they > would have bought all the other assets, some of which could have been > profitable for them, others could have been sold to recover some $M. > Not to count all the stress that they could have avoided (to > themselves and everybody else). And they could have consolidated their > position in the FLOSS community by becoming the Java steward. > > - -- > 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/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkyGhzEACgkQeDweFqgUGxdV7gCgo4mkjLm59ccMCr8sd23l0hF5 > 55UAoIBP7v2fIY+Qt03axp2nK3Mx2lFu > =8hJz > -----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<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- 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.
