just ask Oracle to fire all their lawyers and hire 'better
programmers' like google if they are serious about innovation. ask
them make better web, no war. for them everything is just $$$, no
wonder they have xtra to spend on lawsuit
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go away oracle, no politic, no politic, java must be free and open freely,
use freely!!!
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 5:15 PM, asianCoolz second.co...@gmail.com wrote:
just ask Oracle to fire all their lawyers and hire 'better
programmers' like google if they are serious about innovation. ask
Warning: I am not a lawyer.
This lawsuit is about Android and Dalvik. Google App Engine should not be
affected.
Here's an interesting read I found about this subject:
http://blog.headius.com/2010/08/my-thoughts-on-oracle-v-google.html
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Khor Yong Hao
Google could always grab an open source version of Java, name it Gava or
whatever, and then rename the service gae/gava.
If the Oracle patents are valid, they will have to pay Oracle
royalties even if they use an Open Source version of Java like Apache
Harmony unless this Java implementation
On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 05:54 -0700, François Masurel wrote:
Google could always grab an open source version of Java, name it Gava or
whatever, and then rename the service gae/gava.
If the Oracle patents are valid, they will have to pay Oracle
royalties even if they use an Open Source
Open Source doesn't protect at all against patents, that's why they
have created the GPL v3 which include a patent grant license. Apache
License might also include some kind of patent protection. Most open
source licenses don't protect against patent lawsuits.
I've found an interesting article
Any one can sue any one, for sure.
Is the threat of a patent lawsuit enough to discourage individual
developers to continue creating open source? Maybe.
Is it profitable to sue individual open source developers? Of course
not. They are not generating any revenue and therefore given that any
Another interesting article by Jamie McCracken :
If you ask me, Oracle has scored a massive own goal by suing Google.
Not least because if it expects to wrest back control of Java and make
billions from it, it will surely be in for a massive disappointment.
Here's why:
The 1998 suite was more about trademark, since MS created J++, using
Sun's Java branding in their completely non Java programming
language.
On Aug 14, 12:15 pm, Guillermo Schwarz guillermo.schw...@gmail.com
wrote:
Reminds me of 1998, when Sun sued Microsoft over modifications on Java,
which
