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| Authored by: BJ on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 02:54 PM EDT |
define Java.
bjd
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 03:58 PM EDT |
Check your dates; There was no GPL release of Java when Google went with Dalvik
and Android. GPL Java came after Google bought and started developing Android.
Google would have had to drop Dalvik/Android and switch to the GPL Open Source
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| Authored by: PJ on Sunday, June 03 2012 @ 11:26 AM EDT |
They were free to do so, as the court has
just ruled. So what is Oracle's beef?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 03 2012 @ 12:37 PM EDT |
You are aware that Oracle sued Google because Google preferred to
proceed with their own Java implementation rather than
using...
You are aware that nowhere did Google call Dalvik
Java; nowhere did Google say that Dalvik is Java; nowhere did Google try to get
Dalvik certified as Java; nowhere is it claimed (except by Oracle and its
cronies) that Dalvik is Java?
The only pertinence is that Dalvik
can be programmed using the Java language (but not necessarily), but that
when compiled to a Java bytecode, that code will not run on Dalvik
[directly - first it has to be used as the source code to a Dalvik compiler
which then outputs a Dalvik bytecode which can be run] - just like a BASIC
compiler takes a BASIC program (which can be run by an interpreter) and compiles
it to machine code so that it can be run directly by the processor of the
machine: in Oracle's terms that CPU was fragmenting the BASIC because a compiler
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 04 2012 @ 04:51 PM EDT |
.... Oracle wanted licensing fees that they were not entitled
to.
That's the fun part with a truly open market:
You are not
required to be anyone's customer.
Companies do not have a right to
collect fees from you just because they want to be able to.
RAS[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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