Re:Apache loses Java showdown vote to Oracle
by wmf on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:03AM
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If Oracle is in breach of an agreement, can Apache take them to court of force them to comply?
Apache doesn't have enough money to do that, and if they did their members would probably consider such a lawsuit a waste of said money.
Alternately, are there any legal obstacles preventing Apache from writing their own TCK and saying in future they'll develop against that?
Patents that are owned by Oracle.
Re:Apache loses Java showdown vote to Oracle
by rbanffy on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @03:05AM
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> Apache doesn't have enough money to do that
No, but if they can convince telcos and phone manufacturers they can win, I am sure they could direct some of the money provisioned for J2ME licencing and Android-related patent-licensing into that.
Re:Apache loses Java showdown vote to Oracle
by nradov on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:09AM
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Apache can write their own test suite, but their products can't be legally branded as "Java™" without passing the TCK. Of course, a cleanroom implementation of Java can pass the TCK yet still contain bugs that make it unsuitable for production use. Even if the licensing issues went away I can't see how an Apache Java would ever see enterprise adoption.
If Oracle is in breach of an agreement, can Apache take them to court of force them to comply?
Alternately, are there any legal obstacles preventing Apache from writing their own TCK and saying in future they'll develop against that?