The context was an anonymous post suggesting that all of Google's IP woes would
have magically gone away if they had only used OpenJDK instead of Harmony.
There have been a rash of these posts here on Groklaw. I don't know why you
chose to ignore the context and nitpick.
Even though the article I linked
to wasn't written by a lawyer, it was a recent news pick here which means either
PJ or Mark thought it was valid or at least useful. In addition, the fact that
the GPL-2 does not provide reliable patent protection is well known. The
article explained very neatly the interaction between the GPL-2 and the TCK.
This was something I had told PJ I was confused about just a few days before she
posted that article as a news pick. Since this was something I didn't
understand myself and since the patent deficiency of the GPL-2 is extremely well
known (at least here on Groklaw) I pointed you to the article.
Over the
past week or so, a bunch of trollish anonymous posts have been sprouting up on
Groklaw. It would be great if you could help correct some of the misinformation
they contain.
--- Our job is to remind ourselves that there are more
contexts than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
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