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So let me get this straight.....
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 17 2012 @ 04:31 PM EDT

Larry thinks it's a bad idea to build a Java phone... so he doesn't want anyone else to build one either?

    Larry: Yuppers! That's exactly it. Java phone = bad idea. Therefore if anyone builds one, we'll sue them into oblivion.
Caveat for the humor impaired: I made up invented Larry's response! Can I patent it now?

RAS

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Love the Pic of LarryE
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 17 2012 @ 05:32 PM EDT
from your linked story. Classic wide angle close-up...

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Larry plays with Footgun
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 03:43 AM EDT

Possibly even more telling:

Ellison also said he spoke with Page and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt in 2010 about a proposal for Google to use some of Oracle's Java components in Android. Shortly after Google balked at the proposal, Oracle filed its lawsuit.
[Emphasis added] After failing on their own JavaTM[(C)sic] phone, they tried to get in on the Android phone by "offering" some of JavaTM[(C)sic] to Google to include. What was the reason for this?
  1. They wanted a piece of the mobile phone market?
  2. They could get licensing income from all makers?
It's the timing of the suit that's interesting. Clearly Google felt the JavaTM[(C)sic] additions were unnecessary (neither technically nor possibly from a phone manufacturer licensing point of view), and so it looks [to me] like the typical "Waaaaaaaa, you won't play so I'm getting my gang on you" bully reaction to being told to politely go away.

I don't know the details of the proposal, but I could speculate that the proposal was something like "We believe Android is infringing our IP; licence this JavaTM[(C)sic] technology for [each] Android [handset] and we'll forget about the previous infringement." Google however, may believe (in the same way) that Android doesn't infringe their IP and so tells them no. So, Oracle then file with lots of Patent infringements, but when told to chose the best ones, they are mostly shown to actually be Imaginary Property (when Google gives the USPTO some proper reading glasses); which means that Oracle is faced with having to try another tack which could actually leave them standing knee deep in country pancakes if it succeeds.

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