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Kodak Wins $1 Billion Java Lawsuit
nberardi writes "The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle is reporting that Eastman Kodak Company has just won a patent suit against Sun on the Java Language. According to the article Kodak owns a patent which describes a way for a piece of software to "ask for help" from another application. What they are claiming is that Sun violates this patent when Java byte code uses the Java engine to run the code. This may really upset the industry, because not only Sun uses this technology for Java but Microsoft uses this technology in .Net."
Hi there,
so does that mean that "all interpreter-based
languages are belong to us" from Kodak's point of view ??
R.
I assume SCO is the answer here? Or is it the RIAA labels :)?
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
See, that's why c will never die--not from tradition, nostalgia or speed. From now on, to avoid liability, the linux startup scripts will have to be written in precompiled c (thanks to the wonderful #! symbol). I welcome our new patent-holding overlords!
In the end, it's only the lawyers who win.
And their (soon-to-be after this settlement!) stay-at-home spouses!
Mekka- married to a lawyer- B
P.S.- I know what I'm asking for as a christmas present! It starts with a "b" and ends with a "eowolf cluster"
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Darl says the check is in the post :)
Well, out of the dark ages we got the industrial age then moved on to the technological age and information age and are now entering the lawsuit age. We're coming full circle into the dark ages. Or, perhaps the hunting age as lawyers put on bunny suits and we don Elmer Fud suits...
Soon we'll be calling every patent lawsuit a "Kodak moment"
The previous story is true, I guess coffee IS addictive!
What the hell does makeup have to do with this?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Pieces of crap they are.
:)
Watching those Star Wars DVDs, huh?
And finally Hari Seldon appears and gives a sermon on how to deal with the crisis.
Wow. Are you for real?
If Bush is re-elected, he said he will "protect small businesses from frivilous lawsuits".
So we'll all be okay! Bush will pass software patent reform, he'll structure the laws so open source and closed source are on an equal playing field. Heck, a pro-growth guy like Bush will probably just go ahead and repeal the DMCA and shorten copyright to 20 years, it'll be awesome!
Also, pigs will fly out of my butt.
Yeah, but SCO might sue for prior art ;)
And people are actually stupid enough to fall for this? Hell, I have a dozen gmail accounts and just about every one of them has an invite. Perhaps I should make this my sig:
"send me a nice picture of teen porn and I'll send you a gmail invite! Woohoo!"
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?