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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 03:14 AM EDT |
I could be wrong, but it was my understand that MS actually called it Java (as
in their old battle plan of "embrace, extend, extinguish").
Google makes the distinction between the java language and the Dalvic bytecode.
The Java language is free to use (as both Sun and now Oracle have admitted), but
once compiled to Dalvic bytecode instead of Java bytecode, it avoids the fangs
of Oracle's Java engine license.
Google makes no claim that Dalvic bytecode is Java bytecode. Oracle has no
case, and they are throwing a tantrum over it. Sun gave something away so that
everyone can use it in the way that they see fit, but now that Oracle bought Sun
out, they somehow think that they can take that gift back... After so many
people have begun developing on it. It is morally unacceptable, and hopefully
the Judges see that it is legally unacceptable as well.
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