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most patent or IP battles are resolved via licensing. Oracle has no incentive to destroy the android product (they don't compete in the mobile space) so the on
by lukesandberg 16y ago
most patent or IP battles are resolved via licensing. Oracle has no incentive to destroy the android product (they don't compete in the mobile space) so the only outcome i expect is google possibly paying to license the technology.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoWhich is complicated if your product is open source e.g. Firefox and H.264. No matter how low the licence fee, even zero might not be enough depending on the licence terms, open source and royalty payments don't mix. On the other hand Google, despite already paying H.264 licence fees for itself, has just spent about 200 million dollars on trying to create an open video standard usable by anyone in the form of WebM, so maybe Oracle thinks they can and should pay similar amounts to guarantee an open mobile java.