Sun CEO explicitly endorsed Java's use in Android

Re:Sun CEO explicitly endorsed Java's use in Android by econgeeker on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @11:05AM (#2807659)

Yes, SUN JAVA, not Google Dalvik. Android was using Sun licensed java in the early days, switched when google didn't like the licensing terms.

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Re:Sun CEO explicitly endorsed Java's use in Android by dminor on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @11:32AM (#2807783)

No. Android was released with Dalvik in November 2007, when Schwartz's blog post was written.

http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/

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Re:Sun CEO explicitly endorsed Java's use in Android by YooLi on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @11:59AM (#2807930)

Blog post: Nov. 5 Google released dalvik: Nov. 12

So technically Schwartz could have been blindsided by Dalvik.

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Re:Sun CEO explicitly endorsed Java's use in Android by ig1 on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @01:02PM (#2808311)

I'm pretty sure Schwartz was aware of the fact that Google hadn't licence JavaME from them...

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Re:Sun CEO explicitly endorsed Java's use in Android by YooLi on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @08:42PM (#2810165)

How can you be sure? There are other people pretty sure of the opposite

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2809775

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Re:Sun CEO explicitly endorsed Java's use in Android by ig1 on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @04:39AM (#2811336)

Because it would have been a huge deal, the kind of thing they'd make press releases out of. To suggest that the board members of Sun would have been unaware of such a major deal is farcical.

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Re:Sun CEO explicitly endorsed Java's use in Android by smcj on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @11:35AM (#2807801)

Wrong.

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