Steal Java, do evil. (maybe?)

I don’t see this one being reported all over the place as I thought it would – I mean, everyone loves it with two very large things smash into each other, right? Here’s my prediction – this story about Oracle sueing Google won’t be a big deal because neither of these guys will want to give the lawyers all their easily earned cash, … it will have much longer effets in the patent space… But there are a few other interesting views:

From Inforworld article, “Why Oracle was right to sue Google“,

This was no accident. In a blog post, Java creator James Gosling recalls Sun’s early talks with Google and how the search giant was more interested in “disrupting Apple’s trajectory” with Android than in upholding Java’s core principle of interoperability — despite Sun’s strong objections. How would Sun benefit from Android? It wouldn’t: “Google did have a financial model that benefited themselves,” Gosling writes, noting “they weren’t about to share.”

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