On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 00:11 +0100, Sean Miller wrote:
> Which begs the question... why aren't Google using a standard JRE?
>
> It's great to demonise Oracle as some sort of "baddie", but the truth
> is that Google are a commercial company too who are "doing very well"
> by pretending (imho) that e
Which begs the question... why aren't Google using a standard JRE?
It's great to demonise Oracle as some sort of "baddie", but the truth
is that Google are a commercial company too who are "doing very well"
by pretending (imho) that everything they do is "for the greater
good"... it isn't, any mor
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 11:27 +0100, Bruce Beardall wrote:
> For those who don't already know, Oracle has decided to sue Google for
> using Java, somehow missing the whole "Java is Open Source" idea. Is
> this what Oracle had in mind when buying Sun? An IP cash cow?
>
> Details here:
> http://www.th
On 13/08/10 14:03, Paul Sladen wrote:
> ... the patents in question (all seven of them) are not about Java,
> but about programming concepts in-general (eg. copy-on-write, duplicate
> string merging, dynamic shared library loading, ...):
>
>http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Oracle_v._Google_(2010,_USA)
I had a bad feeling about Oracle taking over Sun. I think that Oracle's
goal is to make money, and it continues to develop and make available
the free stuff that it inherited from Sun only because there would be an
outcry if they started charging for VirtualBox and OpenOffice.org.
Any company t
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> On 13 August 2010 11:27, Bruce Beardall wrote:
> > Details here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/13/oracle_sues_google/
> if it was found that the alternative VM infringes any Sun IP.
For an Android .dex executable, there are no Java byte codes, an
On 13 August 2010 11:27, Bruce Beardall wrote:
> For those who don't already know, Oracle has decided to sue Google for using
> Java, somehow missing the whole "Java is Open Source" idea. Is this what
> Oracle had in mind when buying Sun? An IP cash cow?
>
> Details here: http://www.theregister.co
You're right, of course, Alan but perhaps this lawsuit will test that very
principle?
On 13 August 2010 11:34, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 13 August 2010 11:27, Bruce Beardall wrote:
> > For those who don't already know, Oracle has decided to sue Google for
> using
> > Java, somehow missing the who
On 13 August 2010 11:27, Bruce Beardall wrote:
> For those who don't already know, Oracle has decided to sue Google for using
> Java, somehow missing the whole "Java is Open Source" idea. Is this what
> Oracle had in mind when buying Sun? An IP cash cow?
>
> Details here: http://www.theregister.co
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 16:51 +0100, Gordon Allott wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So I'm moving house and taking a look at the broadband speeds in the
> local area shows something... suspicious.
> http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/broadband_speed_in_my_area_v2.aspx?postcode=cw26jn
>
> namely that in the
On 13 August 2010 11:27, Bruce Beardall wrote:
> For those who don't already know, Oracle has decided to sue Google for using
> Java, somehow missing the whole "Java is Open Source" idea. Is this what
> Oracle had in mind when buying Sun? An IP cash cow?
>
Just because Java is (now) under a free-
For those who don't already know, Oracle has decided to sue Google for using
Java, somehow missing the whole "Java is Open Source" idea. Is this what
Oracle had in mind when buying Sun? An IP cash cow?
Details here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/13/oracle_sues_google/
Regards
Bruce
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