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)
A good point, but surely none of this applies outside countries which have software patents. I'd like to see Google threaten to pull Android from such countries. Maybe that would concentrate the minds of some people in the land of the "free". -- JimP -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
