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Google should just do what Microsoft did with dotnet. Fork their Java projects, change method names from lowercase to uppercase then give it a new name.
by rb808 8y ago
Google should just do what Microsoft did with dotnet. Fork their Java projects, change method names from lowercase to uppercase then give it a new name.
- shawnz 8y agoBetter yet, why not adopt .NET as the runtime for Android? :)
- jplayer01 8y agoBecause Microsoft is just as eager as Oracle to extract whatever money they can through patents that they hold.
- pron 8y ago* https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2015/11/01/microsoft-android-patent-income/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2015/11/01/microsoft... * https://www.computerworld.com/article/2475440/android/microsoft-gets--2-billion-a-year-in-android-patent-fees--really-.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2475440/android/micros...
- shawnz 8y agoMicrosoft has issued a legally-binding promise to not assert .NET patents against standards-compliant .NET framework implementations. See: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dotnet/corefx/master/PATENTS.TXT https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dotnet/corefx/master/PATEN...
- jplayer01 8y agoOh, sorry. I guess I've woken up in a magical parallel universe where Microsoft didn't just spend the better part of the past decade extracting billions of dollars every year from Android phone manufacturers.