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Jurors are going to see a list of companies that license java, almost every name out there. And then Google emails and communications how they need a license,
by loverobots 14y ago
Jurors are going to see a list of companies that license java, almost every name out there.
And then Google emails and communications how they need a license, can't do without Java, maybe shouldn't get it now, or whatever. Either way it was a boneheaded move to invest billions (?) on Android without a relatively cheap Java license.
- bad_user 14y agoMaybe it was a boneheaded move to use Java, the programming language, in the first place. If they used C/C++ they wouldn't have had any problems and considering how awesome Qt is, you can clearly make the development experience enjoyable. Then they could have introduced Google Go in the mix and/or Javascript, to appeal to the younger generation. Ironically, they could have used the ECMA parts of .NET and get away with it.
- amalag 14y agoWhy didn't they? They could have avoided being sued, this again goes to Oracle favor for this lawsuit, they wanted Java's advantages as a virtual machine implementation and not bare metal programming like C/C++.
- krakensden 14y agoOf course, they wrote their own virtual machine, that is totally different from the JVM, so it's unclear to me that they got any advantage from Java's VM implementation. What they really got for free was much of the Java tooling and ecosystem. Which isn't nothing.
- bad_user 14y agoWhat advantages does Java on Android have compared to Objective-C on iOS?