Oracle Sues Google For Infringing Java Patents 510
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from the here-we-go dept.
from the here-we-go dept.
Bruce Perens writes "Oracle has brought a lawsuit against Google claiming that Google has infringed patents on the Java platform in Android. Scribd has a copy of the complaint. But there's a patent grant that should allow Google to use Java royalty-free. Has Google failed to meet the terms of the grant?"
Re:Why do you think Oracle bought Sun? (Score:5, Funny)
None of the really hip companies, they all shave.
Can't believe Java still exists (Score:1, Funny)
If it wasn't for Jdownloader I wouldn't allow that shit anywhere near a computer. Let's hope Google delist Oracel from their Index and the saddos disappear for good.
And I am NOT an anonymous coward, I am an Anonymous PIRATE
Re:Why do you think Oracle bought Sun? (Score:5, Funny)
Why do you think Oracle bought Sun?
For Solaris?
Re:easy solution for Google: (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Stallman rolling in his, er, house (Score:1, Funny)
I think he said something that [i]SOUNDS[/i] like "Open Office is forked because it uses Java".
Re:Like most things in the legal system..... (Score:1, Funny)
I commit far fewer felonies these days since so-called "sodomy" statutes were struck down.
Re:Sun is to blame (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Hooray Patent Minefield! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why do you think Oracle bought Sun? (Score:2, Funny)
Hmmm... I thought the primary reason Oracle bought Sun was to acquire Jonathan Schwartz's blog.
Re:Sun is to blame (Score:1, Funny)
The rabble here love to hang out all day in the bazaar; the best place to be when The Masters throw some loaves of bread over the wall of the cathedral.
Nobody who didn't swallow the Linux koolaid could fail to see this coming.
Careful with the mixed metaphors, I get motion sickness. . .
Re:documenting it on http://en.swpat.org (Score:3, Funny)
Well, even if not, I'm sure he THINKS he wrote it. :-)