On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 09:16:05AM +0200, App Deb wrote: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Steven Susbauer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Android uses the Java language, but this is not what that suit is about. > > Oracle claims the Dalvik VM infringes on their patents. If Android was using > > the Java VM there would be no lawsuit. Sun was able to successfully sue > > Microsoft for similar reasons in 1997 (incomplete implementation of the Java > > standard). Somehow people continued using Java, despite this. > > Actually they were not. If I remember correctly, the Microsoft Java VM > was abandoned because of this and everyone had to switch to the Sun > one.
I think Steven was saying that people are still using Java the language, not that they're still using Microsoft's Java implementation. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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