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Android Lawsuit Is Really Just Oracle Flirting With Google

by yigit on 8/14/10, 7:09 AM with 6 comments

• by msg on 8/14/10, 8:27 AM

  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."

• by pierrefar on 8/14/10, 8:24 AM

  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?

• by foobarbazetc on 8/14/10, 10:52 AM

  Terrible article.

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