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Kodak vs. Sun Java Trial Date Set

Posted by Hemos on from the stone-in-the-shoe dept.

sirshannon writes "CNET News.com.com.com.com is reporting that the Kodak vs. Sun trial date has been set for September 15. Kodak claims that Java infringes on 3 patents they hold and have been trying to "resolve" the issue for 4 years or so. More info here."

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  1. Freaking Kodak parasites... by slashdot_commentator · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    Take a look at those patents.

    Didn't those idiots ever hear of CORBA?

    Of course, its Sun's own fault. If they weren't so anal-retentive about control of the language, they could of submitted it to an open-standards body, and then Kodak would have had a hell of a time trying to enforce those patents...

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  2. Re:There's one Good Thing about this... by Rick+and+Roll · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    From looking at the patents, however, I'd imagine there's a lot of prior art. For example, would sharing data structures between programs or libraries using Inter Process Communication, and semaphores (handled by code serving as a manager of data objects) be in violation of the patents?

    No. That would be quite a stretch, to call processes objects, and system calls messaging. The fact that they accomplish the same thing doesn't matter. Applying it to objects here is the innovation. You wish you thought of it before Kodak. These are dealing with object management interfaces, objects, run-time structure. None of these are any part of what a kernel does. You folks wish you could be as innovative as Kodak.

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