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Hopefully this isn't precedential especially because some of the things that came out during trial that hurt Google had nothing to do with the copyrightability
by wfjackson 12y ago
Hopefully this isn't precedential especially because some of the things that came out during trial that hurt Google had nothing to do with the copyrightability of API but had to do with intent.
For example, this was an internal email by Google's Android boss Andy Rubin in 2005:
"If Sun doesn't want to work with us, we have two options: 1) Abandon our work and adopt MSFT CLR VM and C# language - or - 2) Do Java anyway and defend our decision, perhaps making enemies along the way"
Intent and knowledge matters a lot in court decisions, so the above makes it seem that Google had full knowledge of the risk it was taking and still went along with it kicking the can down the road rather than officially license .NET or Java by paying Microsoft or Sun.
- vyrotek 12y agoI reaslly wish they had gone with C#. That whould have been amazing. I wonder if MS would have even tried to start their own mobile platform if Android was already running .Net?
- AnthonyMouse 12y agoI wish they would have used C, which has much better support for being called from other languages, and then let different people write code in C# or Haskell or Brainfuck or whatever they want.