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| Authored by: PJ on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 11:55 PM EDT |
I have a tentative new theory. I'm waiting to get
mirror_slap's notes (he had
an emergency with the
family dog), but from reading the media reports so
far, I
think Oracle bought Sun's stuff to do it
"better", namely make a lot of money
from it, and
he wants to at least dual license I think. Then
let the GPL stuff
wither and die, and then jack
up the price for Java.
I think that is what the
trial is really for. If
Android isn't brought back into line, no one will
pay
for the proprietary version of Java. They'll just
do what GOogle did or use
Android.
I get that from the testimony of the VP Ed Screven, as
reported by AFP:
Under questioning
at trial, Oracle chief corporate architect Edward Screven said that Ellison and
others at the company had considered using Java to build a smartphone platform
but decided it wasn't feasible.
"Google's Android-Java clone had basically
foreclosed the market from us," Screven said.
Screven went on to say that
Sun had "lost its way" by the time Oracle bought it and that making money on Sun
software available free was one of the ways to recoup the price paid by Oracle.
So this is part of that "way to recoup" in that if they can force
Android back into the license-paying fold, they can clean up. Otherwise, they
are kind of in a whole world of hurt. Not about R&D. That was silly to say,
in that Oracle didn't research or develop Java. But shut out of the smartphone
market, with everyone fleeing for the Android hills, who will pay for Java now?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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