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Oracle Sues Google For Infringing Java Patents

Posted by timothy on from the here-we-go dept.

Bruce Perens writes "Oracle has brought a lawsuit against Google claiming that Google has infringed patents on the Java platform in Android. Scribd has a copy of the complaint. But there's a patent grant that should allow Google to use Java royalty-free. Has Google failed to meet the terms of the grant?"

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  1. Oracle will win by AbbeyRoad · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sun developed Java for embedded systems, and then further for business systems,
    investing enormous amounts of capital to create better technology. This was done
    over the period of over a decade. For this they deserve IP protection.

    The fact that Google is so closely copying their method means that *whatever*
    patents Sun had on the Java VM, could easily be said to be infringed upon.

    The details of course will play a part, but on the face of it myself I side
    with Oracle. If Google wanted to do Java on the android, they should have
    licensed the VM like everyone else, not stolen it.

    What Google has done is exactly what the patent system was invented to
    protect agaist.

    -paul

  2. Must See: Java Fanbois eating crow! by jrbrtsn · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Do all you Java fanbois remember capriciously dismissing concerns about Sun's licensing of Java way back when? I hope you enjoy
    EATING CROW!!!!

  3. That had nothing to do with Mono issues by SuperKendall · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The article was very informative - but said nothing whatsoever about Mono's own patent exposure from Microsoft.

    If anything this whole thing should make you MORE wary of Mono.

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    "There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
  4. Re:documenting it on http://en.swpat.org by idontgno · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    My takeaway from all of this is that it reaffirms my opinion of software patents, that it's poison.

    FTFY.

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    Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
  5. Re:Sun is to blame by BasilBrush · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Many, however, save people from injury.

    The NRA would have one believe so, much as the klu klux klan would have you believe that racism saves people. However statistics from around the world do NOT show people to be safer in countries where there are more handguns.