Oracle sues Google for Android Java use. Oracle wants to stop Android in its tracks because it alleges that the OS uses Java-related patents.
Could this be the end of Android and a retreat into proprietary mobile operating systems like Windows Phone 7? We all knew things would change when Oracle took over Java but .. the headline says it all. Oracle is suing Google over patent and copyright infringements relating to the Android OS. The issues involved are, as always, made more difficult to work out by the complex wording of the patents. The issue however seems to come down to implementation of the Java VM. The wording of the Oracle press release suggests that Google knowingly infringed the patents: "In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property. Google is claimed to have known about the patents since it hired several Sun engineers. In addition to monetary compensation Oracle seems to be asking for the Android OS to be withdrawn.
Further Reading Pro Android. Steve Jobs Comments on Apple's Java Discontinuation : On a New Road. Macrumors has an article on the fuss about Java on the Mac.
They quote Jobs as saying: Sun (now Oracle) supplies Java for all other platforms. They have their own release schedules, which are almost always different than ours, so the Java we ship is always a version behind. This may not be the best way to do it. It simply isn't true that “Sun (now Oracle) supplies Java for all other platforms”.
None the less, there were recurring discussions about having Sun or the community shoulder the burden. A particularly ironic area was in aliased versus antialiased rendering: Apple's graphics pipeline is well designed: they do antialiasing beautifully throughout. 99 of the best Windows freeware programs you may not know of. Because of the popularity of my previous article on Help Desk Geek entitled 99 ways to make your computer blazingly fast, I’ve decided to write another list post with 99 items, but this time on Windows freeware programs that you may have not heard of.
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