4 ms·
Very amusing. Didn't Google just fight, and win, a court case with Oracle about forking Java into the Android SDK? So it's not OK for Oracle to prevent Java fr
by ecopoesis 14y ago
Very amusing. Didn't Google just fight, and win, a court case with Oracle about forking Java into the Android SDK?
So it's not OK for Oracle to prevent Java fragmentation, but it is OK for Google to prevent Android fragmentation.
Apparently "don't be evil" is more nuanced then I thought.
- wmf 14y agoGoogle didn't use Oracle's code, and I guess you can fragment Android as much as you want as long as you don't use any of Google's code.
- Dylan16807 14y agoUh I think you got the words "SDK" and "API" mixed up. Also preventing fragmentation is a goal, not an action. Oracle did legally abusive things, google hasn't.
- ecopoesis 14y agoBoth Oracle and Google are trying to protect their IP from fragmentation. Google changing the SDK license is just as much of a action as Oracle suing Google over their copying of the API. We're just earlier in the process with Android.
- Dylan16807 14y agoThey are definitely both 100% 'actions'. But google is just being less-sharey with stuff that isn't even part of android. While oracle was trying to claim code that wasn't even theirs.