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Sun’s Technology Compatibility Kit (“TCK”) - Guess who controls the TCK?
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 11:48 AM EDT
An interesting side note.

There is evidence that Oracle paid 1,300M more then what Sun was worth.

How do you justify that with shareholders? What sort of a plan would you need
to have to make that happen? In one word... Fees

Whether it be hardware fees or (ding, ding, ding) software fees, which is what
Oracle does. Software systems.

So from a strategy standpoint, they absolutely need to go after the potential
fees with Android.

If they fail nobody will complain they didn't do everything they could.

If the succeed, Larry will be regarded closer to god within his circles.

The only thing he can't do is let Google go without a fight.

This whole issue will get litigated into submission and before long shareholders
will move their interest on to the next best thing.

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TCK doesn't even come in to it.
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 01:29 PM EDT
Alice: "Hey Bob, nice car, I'm thinking about making a doo dad and I might
be able to save some time if can license your engine, it could be quite cool,
wanna play?"

Bob: "Sure, we'll take 90% and let you have ten cents on the dollar"

Alice "Dang, that's harsh, you know what, I think I'll do my own
engine".

Some filings later......

Bob to Court: "Look at this 'motorcycle', it's got spark plugs, it uses
gas, it has an exhaust, it's got cylinders, it's a copy of our engine, it even
copies a subset of our wheels, it is without doubt a derivative copy of our
vehicle"

Alice to Court: "well, it's not, it's a copy of Dave's engine"

Bob: "Well, they say that, but see there they admit they copied it, The
point is it's not compatible with our engine, and the wheel nuts are an exact
copy of ours"

Alice: "umm. oh yeah, sorry about that, but that aside, this is our own
engine, and this is our own vehicle"

Bob: "Look at the wheels, they are clearly a subset of our wheels. we have
a standard that says cars should have four wheels and if you want a IP rights to
our engine then you have to take a license to the CCK to make sure your engine
is compatible with our engine, we paid $7.4Billion for this car"

Alice, "we didn't need a license to their engine, we made our own engine
and then built this motorcycle round it"

Court: "aren't vehicles free?"

Alice: "Yes"

Bob: "Well, maybe, maybe not, anyway, they've already admitted they copied
it, they copied this and they copied that and they are in breach of the terms of
the CCK license"

Court: but maybe none of that is relevant?

Bob: "So, they already admitted it, so you just have to agree that it is
and we can collect our $6billion"

Court: "Is this just about the money?"

Bob: "nononononono, we want them to be bought into the fold, we want them
to be like everyone else, we just want them to comply with the license and
conform to the CCK, adding another two wheels should do it, we've got a license
for that, we're *very* reasonable, we just want to be friends, oh and there
might be a small fee".

Court: "Alice?"

Alice: "we thought about a car, but they were expensive, so we decided that
we might do something else and came up with this idea, it's sort of a bit like a
car, sounds like a car, and in loose terms you can use it where you would use a
car, if you have a car, you could probably use one of these. But it's not a car,
it's a motorcycle, they're quite fun, proving to be quite popular, especially as
we give them away"

Bob: "But you looked at the car"

Alice: "Of course we looked at the car, they are very popular, everyone is
familiar with cars, there's all sorts of cars, yours is not the only car"

Bob: "see, they admitted it again, our license clearly says that if you're
going to make an engine, like our engine, which they admit they copied, you
can't look at our engine when you make your engine which means they breached the
CCK license when they only put two wheels it. These people just can't stop
ripping us off and making cheap incompatible knock offs"

Alice: "it's not a car"


Jury: "?...................







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