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Didn't I recently hear something about Google rebuilding Android to remove Java? Or am I totally off?
by wahsd 11y ago
Didn't I recently hear something about Google rebuilding Android to remove Java? Or am I totally off?
- rincebrain 11y agoThat would likely cost much more than this extortion, and still wouldn't save them.
- alex_hirner 11y agoWhy wouldn't it?
- piffey 11y agoMore than 9 billion? Give 36,000 people $250,000 a year salary and you still haven't hit 9.2 billion. Pretty sure they could get it done in a year with 36,000 people.
- awinder 11y agoThe only thing better than throwing more engineers at an already-late solution is hiring a mass swarm of engineers and turning them loose on a only-semi-bounded new problem.
- ArkyBeagle 11y ago37 women cannot have one baby in one week.
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- AnimalMuppet 11y agoFirst, I don't see any way that moving to OpenJDK is going to cost more than $10 billion. Second, if I understand correctly, OpenJDK has a license grant from Oracle. That's going to make it really hard for Oracle to say that Google doesn't have permission to use it.
- rincebrain 11y agoMoving to OpenJDK might not, but does not retroactively ameliorate any issues they had. I also suspect that OpenJDK's license might bite them in problematic ways, or they would have either done that to start or not had such difficulty negotiating an agreement under whatever terms Java possessed that Google might have wanted alternatives for.
- AnimalMuppet 11y ago> Moving to OpenJDK ... does not retroactively ameliorate any issues they had. True. It does prevent damages going forward, however, and it removes Oracle's biggest club - a court order forbidding any further shipments of Android.
- Caid11 11y agoI think they said they were moving to OpenJDK for Android.