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Except he congratulates them on using Java, not dalvik. The assumption being that Google would not circumvent the conditions for using Sun's Java tech/IP, natur
by m_eiman 15y ago
Except he congratulates them on using Java, not dalvik. The assumption being that Google would not circumvent the conditions for using Sun's Java tech/IP, naturally.
- chalst 15y agoRight. It does make the $6 billion damages claim that much harder to swallow, though.
- nextparadigms 15y agoDalvik was already launched by the time of the post. So clearly he implied the Java inside Dalvik.
- esrauch 15y agoAmazon uses a custom JVM on Kindle devices and they paid a per-device licensing fee to Sun (and I assume they still do to Oracle). If I recall, this is actually how Sun used to handle their licensing; if you had a completely standards compliant implementation then you didn't have to pay licensing fees, but if you have any sort of custom VM that ran java (even if it was a strict subset or superset) you had to get them to agree to licensing terms. Maybe I'm off base, but it seems like just because he made a statement that he was happy to see that they were going to use a java-based VM doesn't mean he didn't assume that they were going to pay licensing fees for it.