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Google, Sun Headed for Showdown Over Android

Posted by Zonk on from the immovable-object-vs.-nuclear-furnace dept.

narramissic writes "There may be trouble brewing between Google and Sun. Google has written its own virtual machine for Android, 'most likely as a way to get around licensing issues with Sun.' If Google used any of Sun's intellectual property to build Dalvik, Sun could sue Google for patent infringement. But here's where it gets interesting - Sun is a vocal advocate for open source and it would 'hardly appease the open source community to sue Google over an open source software stack.'"

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  1. Re:FUD by m2943 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sun and Google are good partners

    Really? In what way? If anything, Google keeps demonstrating that one can build enormously scalable and highly reliable web services completely without Sun hardware.

    So unless Google certifies their implementation, it cannot be called Java,

    And it is not called "Java", it is called "Android". What Google is saying is that you can use Sun's Java environment to create applications for Android, which is completely correct.

    Sun doesn't take bastardization of Java lightly!

    No, Sun prefers to do all the Java bastardization themselves (Java 1.6, what a p.o.s.).