3 ms·
"As an interesting historical side note: the engineers who developed the Java runtime for hiptop would later join Google and lead the Android kernel engineering
by cwyers 12y ago
"As an interesting historical side note: the engineers who developed the Java runtime for hiptop would later join Google and lead the Android kernel engineering team; and develop Dalvik, the Java language runtime for Android."
I'm pretty sure that's less a historical side-note and more an invitation for Sun to subpoena you to testify the next time Google says their version of Java was a clean-room implementation.
- danfuzz 12y agoOracle's lawyers already know our work history, in detail. It's not like my résumé isn't trivial to find.
- wmf 12y agoIf the clean room was located in Danger HQ it was still a clean-room implementation.
- protomyth 12y agoIsn't a clean room implementation supposed to be free of people who have seen the code for the original? I guess I'm a bit confused on this one.
- wmf 12y agoI'm not sure of this, but my impression is that Danger's VM was written by people who didn't look at Sun's source code. And then they didn't look at it again when they wrote Dalvik.
- protomyth 12y agoOh, that would make more sense. Although, thinking about it, I am still a bit clueless how Dalvik itself would violate Sun / Oracle's IP unless it had copied code.