Oracle Sues Google Over Android

[blu-Z8efaSeK1ezqlBn2x/YWAg at public.gmane.org (Edward Ned Harvey)]

> From: discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org [mailto:discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org] On
> Behalf Of Matthew Gillen
> 
> Google's Dalvik, and Java ME on which it is based, is not a complete
> implementation of the full java standard, so those royalty-free
> licenses
> technically don't apply (regardless of whether the code for Java ME was
> open-source or not).

Here's the way I heard it:

(quote from below)
Google could have played a good Open Source citizen and worked with Sun
under the terms of the Java Open Source license

(quote from below)
By not honoring Sun's Java Open Source license, <snip> it is essentially
inevitable that Google's Android will bump into some of Sun's patents.


> From: opensolaris-discuss-bounces-xZgeD5Kw2fzokhkdeNNY6A at public.gmane.org [mailto:opensolaris-
> discuss-bounces-xZgeD5Kw2fzokhkdeNNY6A at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of W. Wayne Liauh
> Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 1:52 PM
> To: opensolaris-discuss-xZgeD5Kw2fzokhkdeNNY6A at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle sues Google over Java!
> 
> > Oracle sues Google over Java!
> >
> > Un-believable! Now it is proven what Oracle's
> > intentions are! Is Java free??? What is the future of
> > Java now??? So much for pro-open source attitude! It
> > doesn't exist -maybe it never did after Oracle
> > acquired Sun. Will anyone trust Oracle any more?
> >
> > Too bad. Too bad I had to witness this.
> 
> I don't know what you are talking about.  In developing Android, Google
> could have played a good Open Source citizen and worked with Sun under
> the terms of the Java Open Source license to create a win (Google)-win
> (Sun, now Oracle)-win (end users) situation.  But, no, Google had to
> generate a false impression that it is big enough to have invented a
> brand new operating system.
> 
> By not honoring Sun's Java Open Source license, and considering the
> immense intellectual property portfolio that Sun has developed
> associated with the Java technology, it is essentially inevitable that
> Google's Android will bump into some of Sun's patents.  And in the
> process of writing the Android code, it is also not totally unlikely
> that (keeping in mind that, because of Google's success, we tend to
> forget that Google is indeed a very young company) someone might have
> gotten sloppy and some of Sun's Java code got "pasted' into Android
> within the meaning of copyright violation.  But as far as the consumers
> are concerned, we (I own two Droid phones) are suffering from the
> relative immaturity that the Android OS shows.  I am sure things would
> have been much better if Google could be a little bit more honest and a
> little bit less arrogant.
> 
> It was my understanding that Rich Green was already very gung-ho about
> bringing this law suit against Google but was shot down by the
> ponytail--unfortunately Green lost his fight and had to leave Sun.
> (Most of us probably still remember that Dr. Green led Sun's efforts in
> the previous Java law suit against Microsoft, resulting in a multi-
> billion settlement which kept Sun afloat in the past couple of years.)
> Who knows, Sun might still be around if Rich Green were the CEO instead
> of the ponytail.