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Key emails from original Android team could help Oracle's case
- eli 15y agoAs someone who only casually follows the case, these emails don't seem all that damaging to me. Of course they had to at least consider licensing Java from Sun at some point. It would be weird if that was never mentioned. And of course they anticipated to ruffle some feathers with Dalvik.
- shareme 15y agoThere are not damaging at all, not even a whimper..remember is was slightly before those emails that Google and Sun were in talks for Sun to become a partner in completing android.
- kelnos 15y agoThe update at the bottom is most telling: Google decided to go for a third option they hadn't enumerated in the original emails: not using Sun's JVM or bytecode at all and instead writing their own. Or you could even consider that to be a part of their #2 option; the "making enemies along the way" likely doesn't mean willful patent infringement, just that Sun would get pissed off that Google decided to circumvent their patents by reimplementing the VM. On a side note, I'm kinda sad that G investigated a bunch of alternatives for Java and decided that they all sucked. I mean, really... Java is the best we can do? Ugh.
- pyre 15y agoCould, but likely won't. One of the emails is the 'we might make enemies' quote I've seen bandied about on HN. It's not necessary to infringe patents to make enemies. The other quote is talking about the needing a license to use Java, but that could be talking about using Sun's JVM, and may not imply that they knew that they needed to license patents, or that Dalvik would infringe those patents.
- Steko 15y agoCurious side note to this: "Sorry, the blog at fosspatents.blogspot.com has been removed. This address is not available for new blogs."
- etherael 15y agoFirst thing I did when I clicked here was type ctrl-f florian. Funny how that worked out.