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Google Says 3rd Parties Would Be Liable For Java Infringement
angry tapir writes "Third parties, not Google, would be liable for any Java copyright violations in the Android mobile OS, according to a filing Google made in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Oracle sued Google in August over a number of alleged Java patent and copyright violations in Android."
My point was, ripping off Java and bypassing the licensing requirements for a mobile Java might have been a good way to save some cash, but it was slightly shady at best, and is going to kill Android as this struggle battles on.
They *call* it Dalvik and the bytecode differs, but the fact remains that it sucks in Oracle(TM) Java classfiles and spits out a proprietary, incompatible binary format. One of the general complaints in the broader struggle between Oracle and Google is precisely this.
The idea that Google copied some code isn't hard to believe, as the whole of Dalvik is just a ripped off Java, with just enough changes here and there to make it appear that it isn't a ripped off Java.
This should teach everybody a good lesson about trusting Google, and also about coding for proprietary VMs be they from Oracle or Google or Microsoft even.
So Google rips off most of Java, makes an incompatible bytecode format, calls it something else, and it's magically *NOT* Java?
Google could have protected itself from this fiasco by starting fresh and not using any of the Sun (Oracle) Java implementation, and calling it something else. What they did instead is take a buttload of Java stuff and call it something else so they didn't have to pay up on the licensing fees.
They were betting on massive amounts of applications being written for Android deviced by Java coders because ***___--- IT'S JAVA ---___*** for all practical intents and purposes!
Evil