Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
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Re: Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
#2> The case was remanded to a federal court in California to determine how much the Alphabet Inc. unit should pay.
No Google is not going to pay billion dollars, not yet. Very clickbaity title.
Re: Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
#3It's a shame that there was no one like judge Alsup in the appeals court.
Now it's about legal phrases and licensing terms instead of common sense all over again.
Re: Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
#4Does oracle have a case or not? If you were Oracle, would you be ok not taking this to court?
Re: Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
#5I’m not sure if I have the timeline correct but I thought Java was owned by Sun Microsystems at the time when they made these decisions. I’m sure they rightly assumed Sun Microsystems would never do this. It is sad to see what Oracle is doing with Sun Microsystem’s creation.
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#6It's a shame that there was no one like judge Alsup in the appeals court. Now it's about legal phrases and licensing terms instead of common sense all over again.
Unpopular opinion: I feel Google should be punished for what they did to Java.
Maybe the mechanism being used is wrong, but Android bastardized Java and as an Android developer I feel real damage has been done to the health of the Java ecosystem by having billions of devices run fragmented Java-but-not-Java.
Google has started to make it right with the switch to openJDK and Desugar, but in a lot of ways it’s too little very late.
Re: Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
#7It's a shame that there was no one like judge Alsup in the appeals court. Now it's about legal phrases and licensing terms instead of common sense all over again.
Unpopular opinion: I feel Google should be punished for what they did to Java. Maybe the mechanism being used is wrong, but Android bastardized Java and as an Android developer I feel real damage has been done to the health of the Java ecosystem by having billions of devices run fragmented Java-but-not-Java. Google has started to make it right with the switch to openJDK and Desugar, but in a lot of ways it’s too litt…
So you want Swing apps on Android?
Re: Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
#8I'm worried if this is again going to pose serious problems in using open source stack and building profitable solutions. So, If I'm going to build something profitable using R and Tensorflow/Keras then someday I could be sued by the consortium or Microsoft that owns Revolution Analytics (that controls R) ?
Re: Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
#9I bet Larry and Sergey are thinking we should have bought SUN.
Re: Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
#10Is that article two paragraphs long without source or attribution or am I doing the web wrong?