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• Nokia building Android phones? - Authored by: jkrise on Sunday, September 09 2012 @ 01:35 PM EDT
  • And reports are that Oracle has known about those JAVA security issues for 6 or so months? - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 09 2012 @ 08:10 PM EDT

Q. And one of the things you looked at was using the Android developers, the Android handset makers, to build a phone for you, right?

A. Well, yeah. (...) So we looked at the same handset manufacturers that build for Android. LG, Samsung, Motorola, Nokia, all those people.

Q. But you expressly asked your engineers to find out who was building the handsets for Android so you could talk with them in particular, right?

A. We did a detailed study of Android, yes.

Perhaps Nokia was thinking about building Android phones at the time when Oracle talked to them? It would have been a very sensible thing for Nokia to consider.

Ellison's final answer "we did a detailed study of Android, yes" is suddenly a lot vaguer than his previous statements. He may have realised that he had said too much earlier. Perhaps either their "study" was not quite as detailed as he had earlier implied, or providing a more detailed answer may have lead to questions about discussions with handset makers that he didn't want to reveal.

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• Nokia building Android phones? - Authored by: odysseus on Monday, September 10 2012 @ 11:48 AM EDT
  • But then the BOD fixed that "issue" - Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Monday, September 10 2012 @ 02:16 PM EDT