[quote=daniweb]
Oracle announced Thursday evening (August 12) that they would be filing a lawsuit against Google, claiming that their Android phone software infringes upon patents and copyrights of their Java software, which they acquired when they purchased Sun Microsystems in January for $7.4 billion.
"In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property. This lawsuit seeks appropriate remedies for their infringement," Oracle spokeswoman Karen Tillman said in an official statement.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, alleges that Google “willfully and deliberately” infringed upon seven Java patents and has even gone so far as to hire former Sun Java engineers to help with the development of the Dalvik Java Virtual Machine, the backbone of the Android OS. Even though the Android OS depends on Java to run, it is anything but a carbon copy.
"From a developer's perspective, Dalvik looks like a Java Virtual Machine, but strictly speaking, Dalvik is not a JVM. Dalvik executes dex bytecode, not Java bytecode. And there are differences in the structure of Dalvik class files as compared to Java class files. Nevertheless, for all intents and purposes, building an Android application is really an exercise in building a peculiar sort of Java application," [I]PCWorld’s[/I] Rick Grehan previously reported when the Android was originally released in 2008.
Google released the following statement Friday (August 13) afternoon: “We are disappointed Oracle has chosen to attack both Google and the open-source Java community with this baseless lawsuit. The open-source Java community goes beyond any one corporation and works every day to make the web a better place. We will strongly defend open-source standards and will continue to work with the industry to develop the Android platform.”
Many reports see this as a way for Oracle to infiltrate Google’s recent success in the Android market, leading to a settlement which will see Java licensing giving them leverage on mobile markets and a free ticket to Royalty Town on the over 200,000 Android-powered phones selling daily.
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What.. Isn't google HELPING Java's cause?
Source: [URL]http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/java/news/304307[/URL]
Oracle was cool back before Oracle bought it
Oracle is known for being absolute cunts.
They closed down OpenSolaris and screwed over the community behind it.
And that's just one out of many things.
[quote]Oracle announced Thursday evening ([B]August 12[/B])[/quote]
I think this may be a tad late.
Aug 13th, 2010, 6:53 pm
Methinks someone in charge forgot what "open source" means
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;33191780]I think this may be a tad late.[/QUOTE]
Didn't see that :v:
But I'm not sure many people know about it.
[QUOTE=Map in a box;33191996]Didn't see that :v:
But I'm not sure many people know about it.[/QUOTE]
FYI, that was the lawsuit that started the whole chain of lawsuit trolling against Google and companies that makes Android phones
Fuck you Oracle. This is why I don't write my shit in Java.
C# master race
[QUOTE=Alex_DeLarge;33192050]Fuck you Oracle. This is why I don't write my shit in Java.
C# master race[/QUOTE]
haha programming language fanboyism
[QUOTE=Zeke129;33192081]haha programming language fanboyism[/QUOTE]
I like how thats not his reason he doesn't use java.
There really needs to be a method by which a company can be completely and utterly shutdown for their practices. Overnight, the technology world would be a better place.
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;33192244]There really needs to be a method by which a company can be completely and utterly shutdown for their practices. Overnight, the technology world would be a better place.[/QUOTE]
Overnight, world peace would be so much closer.
[QUOTE=Van-man;33191677]Oracle is known for being absolute cunts.
They closed down OpenSolaris and screwed over the community behind it.
And that's just one out of many things.[/QUOTE]
Also, their database software is terrible.
[QUOTE=Alex_DeLarge;33192050]Fuck you Oracle. This is why I don't write my shit in Java.
C# master race[/QUOTE]but sun made java, and sun is good
Quit suin' Google. They're my favorite company. :(
[editline]8th November 2011[/editline]
If you know anybody who's thinking about suing Google, please ask him not to.
Even worse are people who sue Wikipedia for defamation
I mean what the fuck that's like shooting the guy with a Red Cross shirt on
[QUOTE=Alex_DeLarge;33192050]Fuck you Oracle. This is why I don't write my shit in Java.
C# master race[/QUOTE]
Microsoft has as much patent bullshit on C# as Oracle has on Java. The only difference is that they "promised" not to use them.
And that really sucks, because C# is my favorite programming language.
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;33191676]Oracle was cool back before Oracle bought it[/QUOTE]Oracle was cool before it bought Sun...
[QUOTE=Ezhik;33193969]Oracle was cool before it bought Sun...[/QUOTE]
Naaah, they were just less of a dick.
But yeah, they changed dramatically after the purchase.
What happens? Google just buys the hell of Oracle, owned.
[QUOTE=Askaris;33192310]Also, their database software is terrible.[/QUOTE]
May I ask how?
[QUOTE=benjojo;33199159]May I ask how?[/QUOTE]
Postgres is in every way much better than mysql.
[QUOTE=Map in a box;33205314]Postgres is in every way much better than mysql.[/QUOTE]
Database fanboyism. :v:
[QUOTE=Mr.T;33205465]Database fanboyism. :v:[/QUOTE]
Fuck off. Everyone knows dBase II is the best thing on the planet.
[QUOTE=MIPS;33205868]Fuck off. Everyone knows dBase II is the best thing on the planet.[/QUOTE]
SQLite represent.
XML file represent.
[QUOTE=Mr.T;33205465]Database fanboyism. :v:[/QUOTE]
Not sure if trolling or not, but postgres is literally better than mysql. I used to be fanbicboi of mysql.
[QUOTE=Map in a box;33205314]Postgres is in every way much better than mysql.[/QUOTE]
Oh, I though he was referring to oracle DB.
Storing database shit in notepad is clearly superior
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