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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Denies Google's Request to Appeal Orac... by NeutronBoy on Monday June 29, 2015 @07:03PM (#9801744)
> But, in all seriousness, the 9 lines + 7 files are damning. It also shows that the engineers who implemented Google's project had been tainted by exposure to Java.

I think that's one of the key points. How can you claim a clean-room implementation, when there are (small) portions that have been directly copied? It weakens the case for the rest of the code.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Denies Google's Request to Appeal Orac... by Zigurd on Monday June 29, 2015 @09:52PM (#9802393)
Android uses code from Apache Harmony for many basic Java classes. If any code was copied from Java 6, it would have happened in the Harmony project.

Android's use of Java also ends in the toolchain. Android never used a Java(tm) runtime, nor Java bytecode in the runtime. by the time an app hits a device, it's in Dalvik bytecode and either interpreted/JIT-compiled by the Dalvik runtime or pre-compiled to the target system ISA for the ART runtime.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Denies Google's Request to Appeal Orac... by Oletros on Monday June 29, 2015 @07:10PM (#9801785)
Nobody claimed a clean room implementation because it had nothing to do with the case
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