Oracle sues Google over Android and Java

Found on CNet News on Thursday, 12 August 2010
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Oracle issued a press release late Thursday saying it has filed suit against Google for infringing on copyrights and patents related to Java, which Oracle acquired along with Sun Microsystems earlier this year.

Oracle, on behalf of Sun, is arguing that Java is a mobile operating system competitor against Android, and that Google is using Java-derived technologies without a proper license.

Java is slow, resource-hogging and not as portable as it's claimed to be. To run a Java program, you need to install JRE first. Awesome portability. Just as portable as your average exe file; you just need to install Windows first. All that aside, Oracle is even worse than Java: that obvious greed for money does not make it interesting to do business with them. They try to squeeze every cent out of anything; and things that don't bring in cash get killed. Just like OpenSolaris right now.