[ale] Fwd: Google and Oracle battle over the future of Android

[Rev. Johnny Healey]

Well, it would be feasible to write a java virtual machine in python, but
it would probably not be very fast and it wouldn't actually solve the
problem. Oracle isn't actually claiming infringement of the VM, or even the
Java language. They're complaint seems to be that Google built and API that
is compatible with the existing Sun Java API. It's kind of an odd stance to
take and runs counter to what has been the cultural norm in the software
industry (think of how many libc implementations there are).

I've been following the case a bit and it really highlights the confusion
as to whether or not anyone actually owns Java. Larry Ellison could not
answer whether or not Java can be freely implemented by anyone. Sun
supposedly GPL'd the language half a decade ago, but then there are issues
with the licensing of the Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) which
basically prevents someone from building a clean room implementation of
Java.

In short, Oracle's argument is that Java is free to implement as long as
what you implement isn't compatible with Java.

-Rev. Johnny Healey

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Stephen Haywood <
stephen at averagesecurityguy.info> wrote:

> Google is heavy into python. I wonder if they could use python where they
> would normally use java and then put in an interpreter that would allow
> older apps to still run. May be way off base here so feel free to point and
> laugh.
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