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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:w00t! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The chicks, money and fame will be there soon.

  2. honest to god by pugugly · · Score: 4, Funny

    I read this for a second as "Google, Sun Headed for Showdown Over Asteroid", and thought Google *might* be overreaching - .

    Pug

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  3. headline is kind of cool by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 3, Funny

    A number which is 10 followed by 100 zeros in a cage match against a hydrogen fusion reactor which accounts for 99.8% of the mass of our solar system. The whole thing happened over a misunderstanding regarding a robot designed to have human features.

  4. Re:Ahhhh, Slashdot by bladesjester · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sun uses death star to kill google

    Let's not get AT&T involved in this.

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