U.S. Supreme Court Denies Google's Request to Appeal Oracle API Case

Re:U.S. Supreme Court Denies Google's Request to Appeal Orac... by vfclists on Monday June 29, 2015 @07:38PM (#9801919)

Why do you guys talk about Oracle as though Oracle created Java? Sun created Java. worked to gain greater control over it and was bought out by Oracle.

A lot of us here don't identify Java with Oracle, we just regard Oracle as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of Java ecosystem and the software industry, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money*

LOL

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Denies Google's Request to Appeal Orac... by wildmusings on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @03:04AM (#9810374)

Oracle bought Sun. So all that was Sun's, buildings, employees, servers, copyrights, and patents, now belongs to Oracle.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Denies Google's Request to Appeal Orac... by andrewguenther on Monday June 29, 2015 @09:50PM (#9802382)

Because Oracle has ownership of the Java's APIs in this case? Sun really has nothing to do with any of this.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Denies Google's Request to Appeal Orac... by wtallis on Monday June 29, 2015 @11:38PM (#9802789)

Well, Sun does matter a bit when it comes to questions of what license terms were or were not offered and with what motivations. If there's any doubt about what Sun actually did back when they were independent, then Oracle is somewhat constrained by what Sun was trying to do (Open source Java), not what Oracle is trying to do (close Java while leaving only a GPL implementation open-source).

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