Android Lawsuit Is Really Just Oracle Flirting With Google

Android Lawsuit Is Really Just Oracle Flirting With Google(blogs.forbes.com)

19 points by yigit 15 years ago | 6 comments

msg 15 years ago |

Howlers:

"Java and Android are both generally governed by a license called “GNU” which means, more or less, that you can use the tools freely to make software but that the things you develop with them are not necessarily themselves free. It’s the latter that concerns this case."

"Android’s Java is, despite being derived from the same language predecessor as Objective-C, easier to use."

mhw 15 years ago | |

And from the author's comment:

"I think to argue otherwise ignores whole swaths of interesting business history such as Steve Jobs’ involvement creating Objective-C at NeXT."

That ignores the fact that Objective-C had already been created (by Brad Cox and Tom Love) before NeXT was founded.

hakl 15 years ago | |

Yeah, that's pretty terrible.

Herring 15 years ago | |

Blame RMS for not knowing the first thing about branding. It's really no wonder we call it linux.

pierrefar 15 years ago |

So a little boy (Oracle) pulls the hair of a little girl (Google) and makes her cry in the hope that they grow old together?

What happened with the more mature way of picking up the phone and saying hi? Or is Oracle's world not receptive to such radical ideas?

foobarbazetc 15 years ago |

Terrible article.

OIN has nothing to do with Java, and the link created in this article is absurd.