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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 06 2012 @ 01:29 PM EDT |
You are talking about two different things.
(1) Sun decided that what Google had done with Android was not something they
could sue over, because they had no grounds.
(2) Both before and after Google unveiled Android, Sun tried to get them to take
a license. Before Android was launched, Sun was trying to convince Google to
take Sun's full implementation and put it on a phone and call it Java. After
Android launched, Sun probably realized that wouldn't happen, however they
continued to try and get Google to license Sun's Java implementation and
trademarks and TCK and all that crap. They were hoping Google would decide to
merge Sun's stuff into its own, provide a full Java platform of some sort (Java
ME?) on Android phones, and use the Java trademark, and (of course) pay a hefty
license fee for this privilege. Google obviously wasn't interested because they
had already built what they needed and all Sun was offering was a bunch of stuff
they didn't need, probably with a hefty price tag on it. After a while, Sun
gave up.
Then Oracle came along and decided to pull a SCO and try to rewrite the history
so they could extort a bunch of money from Google. The case would not even be
noteworthy if Oracle wasn't threatening to basically tank the U.S. software
industry as a side effect of extorting money from Google.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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