Google, Sun Headed for Showdown Over Android

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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Re:How about an Android for this Web ?

[kyashan]

I'm not holding my breath. They've missed their big opportunity with the web already. People were writing cool media applets (allow me a plug) and Sun practically ignored those, stuff like Java 3D is a sign of old corporate business thinking. They should have embraced the more hacker-oriented developers.
It's 2007 and there is no solid reliable way to do your own rendering on a web browser.

Please, no more updates, this thing can only grow worse.