I think there's a lot more to this one. Sun's presence in the mobile/embedded operating system market is/was significant. The Android team certainly learnt from Sun's lessons to come up with a better implementation. They didn't have Sun/Java's (self-imposed) backwards compatibility constraints.
Microsoft similarly stepped all over Sun's Java patents when they created .NET and the CLR. In some respects they also learned from Sun to come up with a better implementation. In that case Sun chose not to litigate but it's been alleged Sun used the threat of Java patent infringements against Microsoft to counter-balance Microsoft's patent threats against Sun/Oracle/MySql (sorry, I can't find the reference from earlier this year). It's a cold war of software patents. Interesting that the same balance hasn't developed between Oracle and Google yet. On Aug 13, 11:53 am, Ben Sand <[email protected]> wrote: > Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Apple CEO Steve Jobs are close mates and have > been for decades. > > That may have more to do with it than anything else. > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Sriram Panyam <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > >http://mobile.venturebeat.com/2010/08/12/oracle-sues-google-over-andr... > > > -- > > Blog:http://panyam.wordpress.com > > Twitter: @panyam > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > > Australia mailing list. > > > Guidelines on discussion:http://tr.im/ujKF > > > No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself:http://tr.im/ujMm > > > To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<silicon-beach-australi > > a%[email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im/ujMm To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
