Developer Freedom At Stake As Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights

Choosing Java and Dalvic was probably a mistake for Android.

What a bunch of jackasses. Sometimes I think the only difference between Oracle and SCO is scale.

There's no way an API should be covered by copyright, for the judge's reasons. If you can get a patent on it, good luck to you; otherwise, it's not proper IP.<p>Patenting an API would be like patenting a UI -- reasonable under the law. <a href="http://www.dbms2.com/2010/03/23/software-innovation-patent/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dbms2.com/2010/03/23/software-innovation-patent/</a> Whether the law should be changed -- as I think it should be -- to make such patents unreasonable is a separate issue.

Why didn't Google just buy Java, way to drop the ball.

While Oracle is hard to sympathize with, the actual article never elaborates on it's inflammatory statement as how "developer freedom" is at stake (or what that phrase even means).

If Oracle gets heavy handed with Java ... doesn't that just mean it's time to use something else?<p>Am I missing something?

Dart as a long-term replacement for Java anyone :)

The future of Java went downhill as soon as Oracle bought Sun.<p>I miss Sun. Dearly. They were perhaps the only major IT company with a true heart.<p>And now there's none left. Google? Hell no.

oh god how could this happen<p>im so surprised

I see Oracle as cancer of the corporate world. An old dinosaur who happened to slog into 2013. The new generation of young and socially responsible will hopefully put an end to their kind.