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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. Re:Why do you think Oracle bought Sun? by cappp · · Score: 5, Funny

    how many other companies Oracle might have by the short and curlies now?

    None of the really hip companies, they all shave.

  2. Can't believe Java still exists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If it wasn't for Jdownloader I wouldn't allow that shit anywhere near a computer. Let's hope Google delist Oracel from their Index and the saddos disappear for good.

    And I am NOT an anonymous coward, I am an Anonymous PIRATE

  3. Re:Why do you think Oracle bought Sun? by Rhaban · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why do you think Oracle bought Sun?

    For Solaris?

  4. Re:easy solution for Google: by Issarlk · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can see the news Headlines: "Google buys Evil"

  5. Re:Stallman rolling in his, er, house by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think he said something that [i]SOUNDS[/i] like "Open Office is forked because it uses Java".

  6. Re:Like most things in the legal system..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I commit far fewer felonies these days since so-called "sodomy" statutes were struck down.

  7. Re:Sun is to blame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is this "how many metaphors can you cram into a single post" day?

  8. Re:Hooray Patent Minefield! by kj_kabaje · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just imagine if we shared global climate data with everyone... oh wait...

  9. Re:Why do you think Oracle bought Sun? by frehe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmmm... I thought the primary reason Oracle bought Sun was to acquire Jonathan Schwartz's blog.

  10. Re:Sun is to blame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The rabble here love to hang out all day in the bazaar; the best place to be when The Masters throw some loaves of bread over the wall of the cathedral.

    Nobody who didn't swallow the Linux koolaid could fail to see this coming.

    Careful with the mixed metaphors, I get motion sickness. . .

  11. Re:documenting it on http://en.swpat.org by Surt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, even if not, I'm sure he THINKS he wrote it. :-)

    --
    "Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking