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Judge Alsup Asks Oracle&Google To Brief API/SSO Issue in Light of EU Ct of Justice Ruling on APIs ~pj Updated
Authored by: PJ on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 01:00 AM EDT
OK. But what about today, or if possible,
2005 or 2006 when Android was being developed?
They used Apache Harmony APIs, as well, so
are they identical? What would be a modern
list of core APIs, if there has been a change?

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Judge Alsup Asks Oracle&Google To Brief API/SSO Issue in Light of EU Ct of Justice Ruling on APIs ~pj Updated
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 01:03 AM EDT

Thank you for the history.

A thought occurred to me the other day. When Microsoft was hawking J++ as part of its embrace, extend, and extinguish strategy to fight the perceived threat of java to their desktop monopoly, they had to settle because they were losing, as I recall. I also recall that Sun's real Ace in the Hole was the java trademark and the contract Microsoft signed in order to have its own jvm. With the support found here for the notion that clean-room implementation of the package, class, and method names and signatures is non-infringing, I'd have to say Microsoft's mistake was in signing a contract with Sun.

Back in those days, 1999 or so, I was just a guy learning java. (I had started, ironically, by buying J++. Clearly I had the naiveté that would suggest a much younger person. Fortunately I moved to the real thing, got introduced to Linux and FreeBSD in the process, and left Windows. A good ending to the story.) All I knew of Sun v. Microsoft was from ZDNet. If I got anything right about the history, it's a happy accident.

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Is it me or...
Authored by: BJ on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 03:40 PM EDT
...are there a lot of 'Anonymi' in these Oracle vs. Google threads lately
that seem to have quite a bit of technical --even 'inside'-- knowledge??

Former [disgruntled??] Sun employees??? one --possbly erroneously--
wonders[?!].

bjd

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