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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 20 2012 @ 04:19 PM EDT |
Umm, here:
public class Foo {
public static void main(String[] args) {
my.own.api.io.writelnToConsole("Hello World!");
}
}
And how do I implement my.own.api.io.writeToConsole? Well,
if I were using the JDK I could implement it natively in C,
with the JNI, but that could be thought of as using a Java
API. BUT IF I HAD MY OWN DAMN JVM I could have implemented
it any way I wanted!
And let me ask you this in return, how do you display a
button on the screen? Java has several APIs to do so: e.g.
Swing (in Java SE), AWT (in SE as well), SWT (an API by
IBM), lcdui (in Java ME), LWUIT (an independent API for Java
ME) or an API different from all of the above used by
Android! Why does Google think that you must copy the
specific API for console output (System.ou.println) but not
the API for displaying a button?
And as to Harmony, if I understand Oracle's position, than
it infringes on their API copyright, but not on their
patents (that would be Dalvik specifically). And why didn't
Sun sue Harmony? Because it wasn't a threat, but they did do
everything in their power to prevent Harmony from getting
the TCK required for Java certification as long as Harmony
refused to accept the field-of-use restriction regarding
mobile devices. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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