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Not really. Their fight with Oracle would be entirely justified to avoid paying the largest copyright damages award in the history of software.
by ryandvm 11y ago
Not really. Their fight with Oracle would be entirely justified to avoid paying the largest copyright damages award in the history of software.
- drzaiusapelord 11y agoThis. Google is in a very ugly place with Oracle right now. Being able to jump ship might save them, but I'm not sure if Kotlin avoids all the legal troubles here. I do believe that Google will continue to lose as the history of the East Texas juries for IP is almost always gifting the patent/copyright holder. I wish our system had some kind of venue randomizer. Its clear that this district is a moneymaker for IP holders.
- pjmlp 11y agoGoogle could have avoided all of this if they hadn't try to screw Sun. So now we have J++ on Android.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Google could have avoided all of this if they hadn't try to screw Sun. Or, conversely, if they'd bought Sun instead of letting Oracle do so, stripped interesting IP (particularly, Java), and sold the rest back off (see, e.g., what they did with Motorola Mobility.)
- pjmlp 11y agoYes, that might have been a better solution. But given Dart and Go I am not sure if it would have been a good idea in what concerns language evolution.
- sangnoir 11y agoI don't quite follow your argument (or if we're disagreeing). However, if they are allegedly infringing on version 6 of Java, how would follow-up infringements of versions 7 and 8 not be foolhardy? They are better off staying on Java 6 and eventually leaving Java altogether or only updating Java versions upon prevailing in Court (which might take a long while, appeals considered)