“Since Oracle sued Google over Android’s alleged infringements of Java IP, there’s been a lot of speculation about what Oracle really wants,” Joel West writes for Seeking Alpha. “Perhaps it’s just that under new management, Sun is no longer interested in open source (as in the death of OpenSolaris) or any other form of openness.”
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West writes, “But no matter what the motivations or how the case turns out, Google will be changed forever.”
“Google is being dragged kicking and screaming into the world of patents,” West writes. “Welcome, Larry and Sergei, to the mess that is our 21st century intellectual property system.”
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Dalvik is a clean room version of a java-like language and virtual machine. Good luck Oracle finding anything that belongs to them. By the time this ends, Android will be up to version 18. Stupid patent trolls at Oracle. This won’t make an ounce of difference to the juggernaut that is Android.
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You want succinct?
Dilger: “Google is nothing but a series of infringements snowballed together.”
Page, Brin & Schmidt think Google’s now too big to have to obey the rules, just like all bullies. And they’ll whimper and sob when they get a licking, just like all bullies. It’s about time.
Google got away with a hell of a lot (infringing intellectual property) in the early days, because it was done under the cloak of giving something away free to the whole world. Clever smokescreen – it was only ever about selling more ads and making themselves rich. Now that the Verizon net neutrality strategy has revealed their utter self serving greed in all its naked horror, they will never again be able to claim any “public good” in what they are doing.