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Oracle Sues Google Over Android

Oh boy! Is this real?

San Francisco Chronicle:

(08-12) 17:17 PDT Redwood Shores, Calif. (AP) --

Oracle Corp. said Thursday it has filed a patent and copyright-infringement lawsuit against Google Inc.

Oracle said in a statement that Google's Android system for mobile phones infringes on its patented Java technology.

This is the other shoe dropping in a story I reported 1221 days ago:

Here's an excerpt of a couple of comments from that post:

Re: Java: The Third Fork From Sun

Comment from Stefano on April 13, 2007 2:53:41 AM CDT #

Are you sure that it won't prevent ASF to release Harmony under the Harmony name without references to Java/JVM ?

As far as I understood it you are not granted patent licensing if you don't pass the JCK, so, I guess you are wrong in that statement.

Re: Java: The Third Fork From Sun

Comment from Weiqi Gao on April 13, 2007 7:53:08 AM CDT #

I'm speculating that Sun will not make any patent actions against Harmony even though the letter of the spec allows them that option. The PR backlash for such a thing would be unbearable.

A precedence of this sort of a situation is the relationship between Microsoft and Mono.

Things may play out differently, though.

Is this the end of Java as we know it?

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on August 13, 2010 12:23:50 AM CDT #