OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/23682/Details_from_Oracle_s_Complaint_Against_Google Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 25 May 2013 22:36:58 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Remember SCO http://www.osnews.com/thread?436627 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436627 There was once a company named SCO... Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (silviucc) Comments Comment by targetnovember http://www.osnews.com/thread?436629 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436629 I don't know if you can really just say "no one but lawyers will profit from this." Either way the lawsuit goes, there will be a precedent set that can either benefit Oracle or Google down the road. Yeah, the lawyers will earn a lot of money, and may get paid more than they should, but really . . . no one but lawyers will benefit no matter what? There's some deserved cynicism over US legal system, but the companies don't make lawsuits to pay lawyers out of charity.

Eventually, I can see something decided like Google using "Java" to describe something that's not really Java, and changing some code to make it all ok like how BSD got rid of a few files to separate itself from AT&T copyrights. But that's a naive, uninformed guess.Edited 2010-08-13 14:25 UTC Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (targetnovember) Comments I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?436630 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436630 I don't get why every company that sues someone for patents has to act all proud and make the other company sound like scum.
Without consent, authorization, approval, or license, Google knowingly, willingly, and unlawfully copied, prepared, published, and distributed Oracle America's copyrighted work, portions thereof, or derivative works and continues to do so.

Seriously? Do they really even believe what they are saying? Don't they realize that they are the scum who ought to be sued for making false claims?

And asking for all copies of Android to be destroyed? They must have gone completely and utterly insane to suggest something like that...Edited 2010-08-13 14:28 UTC Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Zifre) Comments Certainly not good for .NET http://www.osnews.com/thread?436631 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436631 What all this tells to me is that opensource can't trust companies. Their patent promises are worthless, they always put some condition to convince you that you won't be sued. It would be much simpler to give away the patents to everybody for free without conditions but they never do that. So I'm not going to support Mono just because it's a "bit" safer. I want a 100% free development environment, not controlled by any company (like python). Why can't we, the opensource community, invent our own languages and standards and forget the patented "standards" that companies try to impose on us? Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (diegocg) Comments Comment by kvarbanov http://www.osnews.com/thread?436636 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436636 So, basically, Oracle wants Google to shut down remotely my HTC Legend ? No way, I paid for it ;) LOL. These guys are nut, do they really believe that Google people are SO intensely stupid to put themselves in the middle of a patient war ? I don't think so. But in these days the tech companies are suing each other for whatever they like. Personally I'm tired of reading that sort of news ... Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kvarbanov) Comments RE: Certainly not good for .NET http://www.osnews.com/thread?436637 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436637 Just how sure are you that python doesn't infringe any patents?

I'm not saying that it does, I'm just saying that we can't know that it doesn't. For all intents and purposes, we can't know that for pretty much anything.

It would probably take a small army of patent lawyers several years just to get picture of most of the patents that python MIGHT infringe. Same is true for just about any software project. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DataPath) Comments RE: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?436638 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436638
Seriously? Do they really even believe what they are saying? Don't they realize that they are the scum who ought to be sued for making false claims?

And asking for all copies of Android to be destroyed? They must have gone completely and utterly insane to suggest something like that...

Neither is the case. It's just that you can't complain when the judges take your claims, drop some of them (because they're ridiculous) and then base the verdict on what's left over.

So you better start with as many claims as legally possible to maximize the result.

Throwing shit at the wall, and hoping that something sticks and all that... Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pgeorgi) Comments RE: Remember SCO http://www.osnews.com/thread?436639 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436639 SCO had no healthy primary business anymore when they started that never-ending story. Oracle does. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pgeorgi) Comments RE: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?436642 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436642
Seriously? Do they really even believe what they are saying?

Of course not. It's just legalese for saying how shocked, SHOCKED they are about Google's deeds.

One interesting aspect of this lawsuit is that Dalvik is indeed a bit of a "hostile" implementation of Java, done to circumvent licensing feeds from Sun. I rememeber chuckling about this clever legal hack Google were doing back when Android was made public. They were essentially saying "screw you Sun" by going their own way. Some bad blood must be left among the Sun employees. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vivainio) Comments RE[2]: Remember SCO http://www.osnews.com/thread?436643 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436643
SCO had no healthy primary business anymore when they started that never-ending story. Oracle does.


Also note how quickly after Sun acquisition this happened. Might this (rights to Java, and especially right to sue over it) be one of the reasons Oracle acquired Sun in the first place?

They didn't need Sun to buy sun to write Java code themselves. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vivainio) Comments RE: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?436645 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436645 Realistically I don't think they expect every Android copy to be destroyed. They are probably hoping to make Google pay royalties for each copy sold. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (broken_symlink) Comments Foto-comment http://www.osnews.com/thread?436648 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436648 Best foto-comment to this issue:

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/4305/javalarry.jpg

pass it around plz ;) Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (walec51) Comments RE: Certainly not good for .NET http://www.osnews.com/thread?436651 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436651 I could argue that it's more safe to use a language with patent exemptions that's been vetted by paranoid lawyers than it is to use a language like Python or Scala or Lua that are completely community driven with developers who have absolutely know idea what timebomb language features to stay away from.

Also, Microsoft's patent exemptions are ironically more liberal than Sun/Oracle's - this lawsuit could not have happened if Google had implemented C# on top of a custom, non-CLI compatible runtime. Copying and pasting from my other comment-

C# and the CLI are specified in separate standards, so, for example, Mono is allowed to compile C# to native Object-C/nibs and create an iPhone application without fear of falling outside of coverage by the community promise.

Google, who translates JBC to Dalvik bytecode, is getting sued because Java's patent exemption requires that you implement both the JVM and Java together and to spec, or else neither are covered.Edited 2010-08-13 15:36 UTC Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Alex Forster) Comments RE[2]: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?436653 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436653 Duh... Corporate lawsuits are just about money. Open source advocates seem to think think their software is synonymous with Freedom but I don't mind paying for the goods and services I use. In fact those whose primary goal in life is to spend as little as possible are similar to those whose goals are the accumulation of as much wealth as possible. Sadly many Americans worship the dollar -- a form of idolatry. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bfr99) Comments RE[2]: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?436654 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436654
Realistically I don't think they expect every Android copy to be destroyed. They are probably hoping to make Google pay royalties for each copy sold.

Then why not say what they think is realistic? All that they are doing with such crazy suggestions is making everyone hate them. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Zifre) Comments I've said it before... http://www.osnews.com/thread?436659 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436659 ...and I'll say it again. I despise Oracle.

They take good things and screw them up. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tuishimi) Comments RE: Foto-comment http://www.osnews.com/thread?436660 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436660 Love the eye brows. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tuishimi) Comments This was predicted http://www.osnews.com/thread?436666 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436666 This was predicted a long time ago. This article is still worth reading and explains the situation:

http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/ Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (aargh) Comments RE: I've said it before... http://www.osnews.com/thread?436667 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436667 spot on.
They did it with WebLogic (huge price hikes). Now more expensive than Websphere App Server ND.
MySQL (need I say anymore?) - Already forked.
Open Solaris - Forking here we come.
and now this.

Scum of the earth.
And their core DB costs far more than DB2 to run on the same H/W.
Take a gander at their prices for an 8-way/8 core Sparc server. Then don't ever talk about Apple charging a premium price again.

This is coming from someone who was once upon a time an Oracle DBA! (7.3.4 on Tru64/VMS) Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (shotsman) Comments No Surprise http://www.osnews.com/thread?436668 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436668 It's no surprise. The Sun takeover is taking its tole on Oracle, which only came about because Ellison had an ego trip about going up against IBM.

Since Java never made any real money for Sun then trying to grab a slice of the mobile market without having actually entered it seems a decent thing to do. Rather desperate, but it's worth a shot. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (segedunum) Comments Thom was talking about mobile development http://www.osnews.com/thread?436673 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436673 Android and its non-standard Java gets the stench of IP infringement, more companies use WP7, more developers use .net. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nt_jerkface) Comments Reason to Push GO? http://www.osnews.com/thread?436675 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436675 Few months ago Google engineers critised the over-complexity of C++ and Java. This is why they are developed(ing) the Go programming language.
I think this lawsuit is playing into the hands of Google.
In the future the Go programming language might become the default programming language for android and Chrome operating system application developers. And lawsuits like this just might justify and fast track this.
If I remember correctly the whole Gmail application is written in Java. I had the impression that Google and Sun had a nice working relationship. Look like this is not the case with non FOSS Oracle. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fran) Comments SCOracle and George W. Bush http://www.osnews.com/thread?436676 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436676 Well, GW, we've finally gone nucular. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fretinator) Comments Dalvik may not be clean room http://www.osnews.com/thread?436677 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436677 It was a Gartner analyst that made that claim based on the VM being incompatible with a standard Java application. Of course that doesn't mean that Dalvik did not copy components from the Java VM.

Remember that Android was developed when Sun was pushing itself as an open source loving company. Google was probably not worried about a lawsuit and didn't bother creating a VM entirely from scratch. The lawsuit is pretty overreaching in its demands which likely means there are violations. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nt_jerkface) Comments RE[3]: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?436682 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436682 They don't care if you hate them, as long as you pay them. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (arpan) Comments RE[4]: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?436685 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436685 Companies can rarely be bothered to plan past the next quarterly numbers.

Oracle will still have more money than god with or without people liking them for the foreseeable future, but it would be naive to believe that they didn't make themselves onto the shit list of some useful people.

Oracle enjoys a ridiculous profit margin because they are lacking competition at their level.

If I had the technical talent available to me to complete with them I'd say its an opportunity to enter a market that isn't already saturated. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Priest) Comments RE[3]: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?436691 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436691 other then ibm and microsoft, and sco, i can't think of another company that has been more hated then oracle.Edited 2010-08-13 18:35 UTC Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (google_ninja) Comments RE[5]: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?436693 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436693 > "If I had the technical talent available to me to complete with them I'd say its an opportunity to enter a market that isn't already saturated."


I'd say it IS rather saturated, with patents. Actually, saturated is probably even an understatement in this regard... Packed and overflowing would be a better description.

Basically, these days, the chances of a good new idea to become successful without infringing on patents/copyrights is extremely slim. The only reason there still are some ideas that slip through is that they don't generate enough $$$ to attract the IP holders' attention. Yet. Once they do, it's a lawsuit and/or a buyout. The founders get to keep a small amount from the deal, and the world looses another potentially interesting innovation to the hands of the mega-IP corporations, and back to square 1.1 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (avih) Comments RE: Certainly not good for .NET http://www.osnews.com/thread?436694 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436694 open source does do that, so do companies. java is a platform built by a massive company specifically for other massive companies, and has been plagued by the politics inherant in that almost from day one. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (google_ninja) Comments RE[4]: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?436698 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436698 Possibly BP as of late... Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jgagnon) Comments RE: Reason to Push GO? http://www.osnews.com/thread?436699 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436699 What they REALLY need to do is get fully on board with LLVM and the Java byte code front end for it. Then make it an integral part of Android and their SDK's. No need for the JVM ever again. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jgagnon) Comments RE[5]: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?436701 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436701 Competing with Oracle is not possible.
They are other databases, made by companies with very deep pockets but none can compete with Oracle. Oracle is to the database what Microsoft is to the desktop OS/office software. They just have too much momentum and nothing can stop them. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (spiderman) Comments RE: Dalvik may not be clean room http://www.osnews.com/thread?436702 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436702 Considering that Dalvik is register-based and the normal JVM is stack-based, and the binary format used for the classes is substantially different in Dalvik than the normal JVM, I'm going to guess there is very little code you could actually just grab and use.

Google has been very careful to say that you use a java-like language to write android apps. I doubt they were careless with the code when they were so careful in the PR/Documentation Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sprag) Comments RE[4]: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?436704 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436704
other then ibm and microsoft, and sco, i can't think of another company that has been more hated then oracle.

Apple?

Who hates Oracle? It's irrelevant to most people, and "gets the job done" for those that need to deal with it. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vivainio) Comments RE[6]: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?436706 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436706 If Oracle would stick to DB, it would be fine, but now they want to enter into all possible software markets and thats where the problem is. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (wigry) Comments Oracle, give me the line numbers http://www.osnews.com/thread?436707 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436707 Android is open sourced.... How do you make an accusation of theft without pointing to files / line numebrs?

Seriously... show me line numbers. I'm not talking about patent infringing.... Oracle used the word "copy". Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FunkyELF) Comments RE[3]: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?436712 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436712 I think it might be more a threat for Google than anything else really. They are probably going to settle out of court for some such type of agreement. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (broken_symlink) Comments RE[3]: Remember SCO http://www.osnews.com/thread?436715 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436715 This looks like they're suing over Davlik, not Java itself. They want one Java platform, similar to when Sun sued Microsoft for a vastly modified Java.

Personally, I'm hoping this just gets resolved with Google getting a larger role within JCP, and any genuine improvements are moved back to JVM proper.

Java is in a lot of phones, and this has been one of the major reasons pick java as their language of choice. Google doesn't even make much money from Android directly, they're just the lead developers of the project. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lunitik) Comments RE: Oracle, give me the line numbers http://www.osnews.com/thread?436716 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436716 I believe the attorney in charge of this is the same as the one SCO used against IBM or Novell. Boies. His definition of "copy" is something like "functions pretty much the same way". Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (No it isnt) Comments ABBA song title here.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?436718 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436718 You're correct on the Sun versus MS case... MS had agreed to implement Java to the spec... but instead on the one hand they did not comply to the spec and on the other hand extended it in a non-spec way. In a nutshell .. programs written to run on MS-Java were not (always) going to run on standard java (as required by the spec)

LPOD... just wants your money.

Let me curse the ponytail who led our once great company to the slaughterhouse...

(LPOD : Larry, Prince of Darkness) Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TomF) Comments RE[4]: Remember SCO http://www.osnews.com/thread?436719 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436719
This looks like they're suing over Davlik, not Java itself. They want one Java platform, similar to when Sun sued Microsoft for a vastly modified Java.


But Davlik isn't marketed Java, while M$'s JVM was. That's a bit difference. Improvements to Davlik VM won't likely mean anything to the larger JVM or J2ME communities. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TemporalBeing) Comments Apple http://www.osnews.com/thread?436720 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436720 Apple must be loving this. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSGuy) Comments Meego http://www.osnews.com/thread?436726 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436726 As Meego is a non-Java platform that uses Qt and some Gtk, Nokia will receive a boost from this confusion. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mojo-raisin) Comments Speculating Oracle royalty earnings http://www.osnews.com/thread?436727 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436727 Let's do some wild speculation on what Oracle might earn from a backroom out of court settlement.
Let's speculate on five years into the future..after the legal dealings has ended.
Let's say Oracle negotiate a .50c fee on every Android handset sold. Paid by either Google or the handset maker.
Currently 200 000 Android handsets is sold daily after just two years of it's initial release.
In 2009 total cellphone sales was about 1 000 000 000 ie. one Billion. Smartphones has become cheaper and cheaper so let's guess in 5 year's time 50% of all phones will be "smartphones" and global cellphone sales has increased to 1.5 Billion.
That will be 50% x 50% x 1.5Billion x $0.5=$125 Million Dollar royalty revenue to Oracle yearly.
That is not counting the possibility of revenue that Oracle might earn on every Android app sold. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fran) Comments RE[5]: Remember SCO http://www.osnews.com/thread?436779 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436779
"This looks like they're suing over Davlik, not Java itself. They want one Java platform, similar to when Sun sued Microsoft for a vastly modified Java.


But Davlik isn't marketed Java, while M$'s JVM was. That's a bit difference. Improvements to Davlik VM won't likely mean anything to the larger JVM or J2ME communities. "

Yes. Thats the reason why there suing for patents. Problem is technology created by SUN is getting used by Google. Google is making money. If someone says Andriod is free and Google is not making money out of it, think again. They made it to make sure they get Ad revenue from it. Will the open source their Ad technology? If they ever do it, will they allow someone to change it and get money out of it and they not getting much from it?
SUN, an amazing company who invested lot of money in R&D wouldnt exist if Oracle didnt buy it. SUN would go bankrupt in a few years. before it got bought, it was trading for exact value of money it has in cash. I would even say companies like Google killed one of the best research company, SUN. Sat, 14 Aug 2010 05:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pns.sri) Comments RE: Certainly not good for .NET http://www.osnews.com/thread?436784 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436784 Back to basics, back to C/C++ Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jimmyspitz) Comments RE[3]: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?436801 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436801 Again. Free software isn't about zero price, it's about liberty. From the horse's mouth: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

I agree that many Americans^H^H^H^H^H humans worship the dollar^H^H^H^H local currency, and it's a form of idolatry, and it's sad. But compare the lifestyle of Bill Gates to that of rms, and it's just weird for you to effectively claim that the latter is all about "the accumulation of as much wealth as possible". Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ricegf) Comments RE[6]: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?436803 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436803 You're new around here, aren't you? ;-)

"Apple II Forever." "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." "Nobody can challenge DEC's Vax." "Windows will never replace Unix on the engineering desktop." "Nothing can stop the momentum of Windows Mobile." "Nothing can prevent the iPhone from dominating the smartphone market."

Heard it all before.

Although Windows is declining only slowly in desktop share right now (about 1.5% per year), that could easily change over the next decade. Their customer's expectations are changing due to more web apps, touch screens, HDTVs, embedded processing, and tablet and mobile computing. At some point, you have to wonder if they will look at a Windows desktop machine and ask, "Why do I need that again?" And if you don't need Windows apps, you don't need Windows on a desktop computer - any OS will do.

That's just one scenario, of course - many others have been discussed in forums where folks obsessed with market share statistics lurk (ahem). And in a sense, it doesn't matter, because desktops are declining in importance as those other categories grow.

But to claim that "nothing can stop them" on the desktop (Microsoft) - or in databases (Oracle) - is to miss the lessons of computing history, IMHO. Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ricegf) Comments RE[5]: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?436804 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436804 Those who've had to renegotiate pricing for an Oracle license? Just saying... Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ricegf) Comments RE: This was predicted http://www.osnews.com/thread?436805 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436805 Wow. 15 November 2007 according to archive.org. "Sun is under fire for IP issues related to ZFS and they claimed that it’s an “attack on free software”. I’m curious to see how they’re going to spin their own IP attack on Android (because I bet there’s going to be one)."

Spot on, Mr. Mazzocchi. Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ricegf) Comments Comment by Aragorn992 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436809 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436809 I'm a bit confused about what Google is doing wrong according to Oracle.

Is it because they compile to Java bytecode and then (after coverting he Java bytecode to their own VM bytecode) don't use the standard Java VM? If so, couldn't this be solved just by compiling the source to their VMs bytecode?

Or, would the use of the Java language itself, and some of the same names as Java's libraries also constitute some form of patent issue?

Honestly, I cannot see this affecting Google much. All they have to do, worst case, is modify the source code language so its sufficiently non-Java-like and then write a compiler to compile this source directly to their own VM. It would be shitty for the developer community, but if necessary not a major problem (considering that Android already has sufficient critical mass in market share to make developers take notice regardless of its development process). Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Aragorn992) Comments RE[2]: Reason to Push GO? http://www.osnews.com/thread?436810 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436810 No need to waste trying to make LLVM support Java. GCC already supports that through gcj. It can compile Java source code to Java bytecode, or to native executable code. And it can even compile Java bytecode to native code.

They might need to modify it to enable compilation of Dalvik bytecode to native code. But they can go Java source to binary without any modification. Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gnufreex) Comments Comment by Fransexy http://www.osnews.com/thread?436823 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436823 this will end with google buying oracle ;-) Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Fransexy) Comments RE[5]: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?436854 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436854 Apple is actually the most admired company on the planet.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/2010/index.html Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kristoph) Comments RE[2]: This was predicted http://www.osnews.com/thread?436855 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436855 Oracle is attacking 'Free Software'. Sun is dead.

No need to spin anything. Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kristoph) Comments RE[6]: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?436883 http://www.osnews.com/thread?436883
Apple is actually the most admired company on the planet.

Among the clueless, possibly. Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vivainio) Comments RE[3]: Remember SCO http://www.osnews.com/thread?437009 http://www.osnews.com/thread?437009
"SCO had no healthy primary business anymore when they started that never-ending story. Oracle does.


Also note how quickly after Sun acquisition this happened. Might this (rights to Java, and especially right to sue over it) be one of the reasons Oracle acquired Sun in the first place?

They didn't need Sun to buy sun to write Java code themselves. "
Things like this will happen as long as patents...
-Are owned and can be used by a company and not only by their inventors
-Can be vague
-Can last a very long time before reaching public domain Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Neolander) Comments RE[4]: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?437010 http://www.osnews.com/thread?437010
other then ibm and microsoft, and sco, i can't think of another company that has been more hated then oracle.

Apple. But it's a bit complicated, because it has also been extremely loved. There's no cold-blooded way of talking about Apple. Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Neolander) Comments RE[6]: I love these patent case "announcements" http://www.osnews.com/thread?437011 http://www.osnews.com/thread?437011
Apple is actually the most admired company on the planet.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/2010/index.html

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I don't see why would Oracle allow everyone to make money from their own property. I write software myself and I always retain tight control over distribution of my work.

Considering open source Java, I think it never worked properly. I had problems with some applets written by other people. Also, some of my customers had problems with my applications, running them on IcedTea on Redora. I refused to look into that until they installed official JRE from Oracle. But, when they did that, the problems ceased to exist. IcedTea is, probably, linked against some local libraries, any of which might cause problems. As far as I am concerned open source JRE/JDK should have never existed at all, because it is only causing me problems. Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (trenchsol) Comments