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> "Before Android," Oracle’s lawyers write in their brief to the Supreme Court, "every company that wanted to use the Java platform took a commercial license...
by kodablah 7y ago
> "Before Android," Oracle’s lawyers write in their brief to the Supreme Court, "every company that wanted to use the Java platform took a commercial license...including smartphone manufacturers BlackBerry, Nokia and Danger."
Either that's word twisting (e.g. "platform" means something different or the commercial license was implicit) or just false.
- stefan_ 7y agoWhat they licensed to BlackBerry, Nokia and Danger was of course the Java ME runtime.