All that matters is what it actually says. If a bunch of high-priced lawyers mangled the text and the patent doesn't actually cover what Gosling thought he was patenting, then that is Oracle's problem, not ours.

The patent is explicit that it covers an invention where the symbolic references are contained in the instructions. (If you don't believe me, read the claims.) No actual VM I've heard of, actually works that way. Not a Java VM, not a Dalvik VM, not a Smalltalk VM.

Pretty much all real-world VMs are missing an essential element from the claims of the '104 patent, and are therefore not covered by it.

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