Microsoft sides with Oracle against Google in Java appeal
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Microsoft sides with Oracle against Google in Java appeal
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Re: Microsoft sides with Oracle against Google in Java appeal
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#3kind of ridiculous that this even makes to court in the first place....
edit: Does anyone know much about the precedence (in court rulings) of ownership of programming languages?
Re: Microsoft sides with Oracle against Google in Java appeal
#4This article is trying to make hay out of various tech wars because it makes a nice narrative, but the key here is
A copy of Microsoft's legal brief was not immediately available on the Federal Circuit's docket.
All we know is that they filed a friend of the court brief. Oracle's appeal has a fairly diverse[1] spread of approaches to copyright and APIs in an attempt to make their case. Microsoft's brief could be equally sprawling or limited to a single aspect of Oracle's claims. We won't know until we can actually read it.
[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/on-appeal-oracle-...
Re: Microsoft sides with Oracle against Google in Java appeal
#5Does Microsoft actually have a vested interest specifically in the use of Java by Google, such as being upset that Google had free use of the Java APIs while itself was scolded for implementing their own JVM?
Or is it basically "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"?
Re: Microsoft sides with Oracle against Google in Java appeal
#6Considering where .Net and C# came from (as in heavily, heavily, heavily influenced by) and we have to forget those pictures of Bill Gates chumming around with then President Clinton riding around in golf carts; it seems clear why Microsoft would take the stance they did..."Android is the best-selling smartphone operating system around the world.".
Re: Microsoft sides with Oracle against Google in Java appeal
#7Does Microsoft actually have a vested interest specifically in the use of Java by Google, such as being upset that Google had free use of the Java APIs while itself was scolded for implementing their own JVM? Or is it basically "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"?
Guessing only: MS is a software company so they'd want to make it harder for others to copy (like whatever Google supposedly copied from java.)
This, of course, is business for all involved, nothing personal.
Re: Microsoft sides with Oracle against Google in Java appeal
#8Does Microsoft actually have a vested interest specifically in the use of Java by Google, such as being upset that Google had free use of the Java APIs while itself was scolded for implementing their own JVM? Or is it basically "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"?
Guessing only: MS is a software company so they'd want to make it harder for others to copy (like whatever Google supposedly copied from java.) This, of course, is business for all involved, nothing personal.
But that's a little strange, since Google is also a software company.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Guessing only: MS is a software company so they'd want to make it harder for others to copy (like whatever Google supposedly copied from java.) This, of course, is business for all involved, nothing personal.
But that's a little strange, since Google is also a software company.
Google is not a software company. Google is an advertising company that uses (massively intelligent) software.
Re: Microsoft sides with Oracle against Google in Java appeal
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Guessing only: MS is a software company so they'd want to make it harder for others to copy (like whatever Google supposedly copied from java.) This, of course, is business for all involved, nothing personal.
But that's a little strange, since Google is also a software company.
Google's bread and butter (Adwords, Search algorithms and related data) are not installed on 90% of the world's PCs, they're guarded as trade secrets. Android, Chrome and the rest only feed data and users to what is a secret. They're free and "open" to encourage adoption and by extension get more ads served, increase ad relevancy and as a bonus try to ruin Apple's and MSFT's business.