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| Authored by: jjs on Saturday, April 28 2012 @ 09:14 AM EDT |
I program in C. Do I owe AT&T/Lucent/whoever anything? I
write a story that concerns two lovers from opposite sides
of the "war" falling in love, fighting their families, and
dying. Do I owe Shakespeare (or rather, his original
Italian source) anything? If so, where did "West Side
Story" pay the royalties to.
Even more - if using the concepts of a language mean that
you "owe" royalties to it, does Oracle pay IBM for SQL?
Does Oracle pay AT&T/Lucent/Whoever for C? How about the
originators of object oriented programming? UCSD for p-
code, the idea of bytecodes (it may predate them, even)?
"If I see farther than others, it's because I stand on the
shoulders of giants." Isaac Newton.
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(Note IANAL, I don't play one on TV, etc, consult a practicing attorney, etc,
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| Authored by: jjs on Saturday, April 28 2012 @ 09:16 AM EDT |
> They certainly tried. Their intent was clear and the
practice was well established and ongoing with scores of
licensees etc.
Listen to day 9 of the testimony by Jonathon Shwartz (CEO of
Sun, where Java originated - NOT Oracle). The only
requirement was that if you wanted to call it Java you had
to use the TCK. Harmony was out there. Sun knew it. They
were OK with it. They welcomed Android.
So much for their intent was clear - it was, that Java was
free, as long as you didn't call it Java (which Google
didn't).
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(Note IANAL, I don't play one on TV, etc, consult a practicing attorney, etc,
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