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Sunday, August 15th, 2010 01:57 am

Много интересного про Oracle vs. Google. Самое забавное:

You seem to be missing the point of why Google didn't just use the GPL'd JavaME. Sun deliberately removed the Classpath exception on JavaME specifically because they saw that most of their licensing opportunities were on mobile platforms. This meant that any *application* developers targeting a GPL'd JavaME platform would be forced to GPL their applications. Not surprisingly Google saw this would be undesirable when trying to attract developers to the platform.

Вдумаемся, что мы тут имеем - Sun/SCOracle использует GPL в качестве оружия против создания открытой платформы на базе своего софта, вынуждает Гугл создать свою отдельную платформу и подаёт на него в суд за это! Ах, Столмен, за что боролись?
На втором месте там:

Oracle Corporation opposes the patentability of software. The Company believes that existing copyright law and available trade secret protections, as opposed to patent law, are better suited to protecting computer software developments.

Patent law provides to inventors an exclusive right to new technology in return for publication of the technology. This is not appropriate for industries such as software development in which innovations occur rapidly, can be made without a substantial capital investment, and tend to be creative combinations of previously-known techniques.

и т.п. 1994 год, молодые, зелёные, наивные...

А вообще такими успехами, если эта фигня быстро не закончится, любителям Жабы пора подыскивать новую платформу. Хотя я не очень понимаю, где. Дотнет обладает тем же потенциалом для адвокатского раздолья при сомнительной кроссплатформенности, возвращаться к Ц++ как-то стыдно...

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