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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 02:22 PM EDT |
Oracle ONLY bought Sun because they thought they could get Google to pay licence
fees... apparently, when Oracle's IP Lawyers were going through Sun's java
related patents during the pre sale inventory taking, their eyes lit up...
I also strongly suspect Microsoft put them up to it as part of their overall war
against Google and open source... but getting evidence of that would be
extremely difficult... it's the sort of dodgy deal that gets done verbally on
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| Authored by: hardmath on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 07:58 PM EDT |
Remember, Ellison testified from "personal knowledge" that
Spring Java doesn't use "Sun APIs".
Oracle is pulling a giant switcheroo on the freely available
Java APIs, which have never required a license fee and have
never drawn litigation when distributed (GNU Classpath,
Apache Harmony, Bouncy Castle) with independent
implementations.
The missing thing for the jury is, why now?
Oracle's failure to monetize Java goes to the credibility of
their case.
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"Prolog is an efficient programming language because it is a very stupid theorem
prover." -- Richard O'Keefe[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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