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IMHO all law suites over patents in software are slimy. This my opinion as a programmer. If you are indeed a programmer, please feel free to look at this and te
by badmash69 16y ago
IMHO all law suites over patents in software are slimy. This my opinion as a programmer. If you are indeed a programmer, please feel free to look at this and tell me if you see any of the stuff mentioned in the lawsuit not fairly obvious. http://www.theserverside.com/report/The-Oracle-Google-Patent-Lawsuit-Demystified http://www.theserverside.com/report/The-Oracle-Google-Patent... . I do not think algorithms should be patentable as this stifles innovation. Oracle vs. Google lawsuit would be fun to watch -- if you like the "SAW" movies.
- gaius 16y agoLike it or not, this is how the game is played. If the situation were reversed, Google's lawyers would be all over Oracle like a cheap suit. They'd be neglecting their responsibility to their shareholders if they weren't. If you think Google is "different" from any other multinational public corporation then you've fallen hook, line and sinker for their PR.
- badmash69 16y agoMay be so , but so far no software patent lawsuits from Google. Yet. I read somewhere that Schawrtz, the nincompoop former CEO of Sun, pitched Google lawsuit as an asset. A typical Asshat CEO meets douchebag investor love story. May be my visceral reaction stems from the gradual acceptance of the fact that I would have to learn Haskell after all.
- gaius 16y agoHaskell is great! And there's OCaml and F# too...
- richardw 16y agoGoogle would have nixed Hadoop if they were playing the same game. Instead they gave them a BigTable patent license. There are many shades of evil, but theirs is far less dark than Oracle's.