Oracle v Google: Why? What does Oracle hope to gain?

Re:Oracle v Google: Why? What does Oracle hope to gain? by mbreese on Saturday August 14, 2010 @02:06PM (#1603720)

Some have already started calling this SCOracle. So yes, be prepared for a long protracted legal battle. The upside might be the end to software patents. The downside is years of legal maneuvering not to mention the death of Java.

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Re:Oracle v Google: Why? What does Oracle hope to gain? by moeffju on Saturday August 14, 2010 @03:16PM (#1603844)

I know a number of people who would not call the death of Java a downside.

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Re:Oracle v Google: Why? What does Oracle hope to gain? by mcav on Saturday August 14, 2010 @03:53PM (#1603895)

The death of the JVM would most definitely be a downside.

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Re:Oracle v Google: Why? What does Oracle hope to gain? by nkassis on Sunday August 15, 2010 @04:51AM (#1604825)

Considering that if Oracle gets it's way, making a JVM type VM is going to be impossible without lawsuit. Those patents seem very broad.

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Re:Oracle v Google: Why? What does Oracle hope to gain? by sogrady on Saturday August 14, 2010 @06:05PM (#1604135)

As much as I would like to believe that this case could bring sufficient attention to the absurdity that is software patents that it would compel a remedy, I think it unlikely.

Frankly, this is likely to be regarded as business-as-usual outside of technology circles, and as long as large technology providers are extracting substantial revenue from their intellectual property in this fashion we can't expect much change.

Economics are, generally, the only real change agent.

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