he [the Judge] thinks Google should have
taken a license and
Oracle shouldn't have been or be asking
for the Moon for it. I could be
projecting, of course.
It seem likely that you feel that
Google should have
taken a license, as you suggest you may be projecting. Let
us clear that up. Google negotiated long and hard for a
license, but in the
end, they couldn't get the terms they
wanted. More specifically, Sun wanted
them to license Java
(probably Java ME) - and use the whole thing, not just the
good parts, and Google didn't think they could built a
successful smart phone
that way. Remember, they said they
had a whole closet full of
failures.
It is my opinion that Google used Sun's
investment in java and the goodwill of its developers in
order to come to
market faster and with a more attractive
platform.
So what
does that have to do with anything? The Java
language is free, with Sun's
blessings. Google's use of it
in the end received Suns blessings. Google did
more for
Java than in the end then any harm done by supposed
"fragmentation"
of the platform. Android has created
thousands of new programmers equipped with
Java and ready to
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