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> Someone did a back of the envelope calculation and decided a lawsuit was going to be cheaper than licensing Java would be. I don't think it was an issue of m
by wtallis 7y ago
> Someone did a back of the envelope calculation and decided a lawsuit was going to be cheaper than licensing Java would be.
I don't think it was an issue of monetary value. Sun simply wasn't going to offer terms that would allow Google to make Android with Sun's blessing, because Sun wanted to retain tight control over the feature set of different Java editions.
> This all would have been avoided if Google wasn't a bad actor in the first place. They wanted to play by different rules than everyone else
Please don't do this. The irony of making such a silly claim using a software stack that is so thoroughly built on those "different rules" is too much.
- papyruskaleido 7y agoOkay. If you need a license for something and someone isn't going to license it to you, you don't have carte blanche to do whatever you want with their IP. > Please don't do this. The irony of making such a silly claim using a software stack that is so thoroughly built on those "different rules" is too much. Give me a break. You just said yourself they circumvented Sun's licensing. If software licensing and trademark usage doesn't matter, then why do even bother with them?
- wtallis 7y ago> You just said yourself they circumvented Sun's licensing. If software licensing and trademark usage doesn't matter, then why do even bother with them? Please don't conflate trademark licenses with copyright licenses.
- papyruskaleido 7y agoI'm not. Please don't be so condescending.