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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 tverbeek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As far as I'm concerned that ugly red "ORACLE" on the splash screen for OpenOffice is reason enough to hate them; at least the Sun branding was tasteful. And the icons for the individual apps (Writer, Calc, Impress, etc.) didn't all look alike.

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  2. Re:Like most things in the legal system..... by John+Hasler · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > ...I'm sure everyone violates some law every day...

    True, but this is about patent infringement. Oracle has not alleged that any laws were violated.

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  3. All of a sudden iPhone looks like an open system.. by madsh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why did they choose the Java language? Because they needed a safe, statically typed, garbage collected language that people had experience with and that there were tools for. There is little else out there that fits the bill (C# wasn't an option at the time they started).

    Objective-C on iPhone is a pain to learn, but at least the iPhone will not go down in flames from companies fighting over rights to language, runtime, tools and access to application markets.

  4. Re:How ironic by bain_online · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did you miss the part where SUN has (succesfully) sued Microsoft for the exact same thing?

    This is slashdot... Sueing Microsoft is _always_ OK.

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