Oracle has just acquired Sun Systems, and with it its Java Technology. I myself just found out that Google's mobile operating system, Android, runs on Java. Now Oracle is pointing fingers and lawyers at Google.
Google infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property "knowingly, directly and repeatedly," Oracle said on Thursday in a statement about the lawsuit, which it filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
And it's no surprise that Google says "Bring it on." Java is an open source programming language and Google did nothing wrong using it. If Oracle pushes for its lawsuit, that would mean it wants to close up the open source technology. It should do well to learn from Apple's failing example of not advancing towards a more open web. (ie. Apple's refusal to include Flash into OS X and iOS, and Flash's primary objective is to provide a programming tool for multiple platform, thus a more open web)
It does not matter whether Google wins this lawsuit or not. Oracle would have the entire technosphere frowning on them.
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This is an interesting read: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/08/oracles-java-lawsuit-undermines-its-open-source-credibility.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
Basically, they said that Sun probably shopped itself with a big "sue Google" soon,
I mean "sign".
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