Android Lawsuit Is Really Just Oracle Flirting With Google

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Post by yigit » Sat, Aug 14, 2010, 7:09 AM UTC

Android Lawsuit Is Really Just Oracle Flirting With Google
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Re: Android Lawsuit Is Really Just Oracle Flirting With Google

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Post by pierrefar » Sat, Aug 14, 2010, 8:24 AM UTC

So a little boy (Oracle) pulls the hair of a little girl (Google) and makes her cry in the hope that they grow old together?

What happened with the more mature way of picking up the phone and saying hi? Or is Oracle's world not receptive to such radical ideas?

Re: Android Lawsuit Is Really Just Oracle Flirting With Google

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Post by msg » Sat, Aug 14, 2010, 8:27 AM UTC

Howlers:

"Java and Android are both generally governed by a license called “GNU” which means, more or less, that you can use the tools freely to make software but that the things you develop with them are not necessarily themselves free. It’s the latter that concerns this case."

"Android’s Java is, despite being derived from the same language predecessor as Objective-C, easier to use."

Re: Android Lawsuit Is Really Just Oracle Flirting With Google

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Post by hakl » Sat, Aug 14, 2010, 9:00 AM UTC

msg wrote: post #3

Howlers: "Java and Android are both generally governed by a license called “GNU” which means, more or less, that you can use the tools freely to make software but that the things you develop with them are not necessarily themselves free. It’s the latter that concerns this case." "Android’s Java is, despite being derived from the same language predecessor as Objective-C, easier to use."

Yeah, that's pretty terrible.

Re: Android Lawsuit Is Really Just Oracle Flirting With Google

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Post by mhw » Sat, Aug 14, 2010, 9:09 AM UTC

msg wrote: post #3

Howlers: "Java and Android are both generally governed by a license called “GNU” which means, more or less, that you can use the tools freely to make software but that the things you develop with them are not necessarily themselves free. It’s the latter that concerns this case." "Android’s Java is, despite being derived from the same language predecessor as Objective-C, easier to use."

And from the author's comment:

"I think to argue otherwise ignores whole swaths of interesting business history such as Steve Jobs’ involvement creating Objective-C at NeXT."

That ignores the fact that Objective-C had already been created (by Brad Cox and Tom Love) before NeXT was founded.

Re: Android Lawsuit Is Really Just Oracle Flirting With Google

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Post by foobarbazetc » Sat, Aug 14, 2010, 10:52 AM UTC

Terrible article.

OIN has nothing to do with Java, and the link created in this article is absurd.

Re: Android Lawsuit Is Really Just Oracle Flirting With Google

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Post by Herring » Sat, Aug 14, 2010, 12:18 PM UTC

msg wrote: post #3

Howlers: "Java and Android are both generally governed by a license called “GNU” which means, more or less, that you can use the tools freely to make software but that the things you develop with them are not necessarily themselves free. It’s the latter that concerns this case." "Android’s Java is, despite being derived from the same language predecessor as Objective-C, easier to use."

Blame RMS for not knowing the first thing about branding. It's really no wonder we call it linux.