If Oracle wins its Android suit, everyone loses

If you care about this, read groklaw (e.g. <a href="http://groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100813112425821" rel="nofollow">http://groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100813112425821</a>) instead. It's <i>much</i> better.

If Oracle wins on this bogus computer-languages-are-copywritable claim, I hope IBM sues them to oblivion for their use of SQL through the years. It's sad that a company can be so ignorant of its own history.

If Google loses, they will be known for making one of the biggest blunders in tech history by not buying Sun Microsystems. I assume it was Eric Schmidt who axed that deal. I curiously kind of hope Google loses, it would shake up the mobile market quite a bit.

Also, Oracle needs to be paying retroactive benefits to the interpreted assembly languages that are used to convert Java to machine code. It's only fair that the creators of these languages receive the full benefits of their contributions.<p>Time to scramble and find out who owns all of the millions of languages in the world, computer, spoken, symbolic, memespeak, they are now going to be traded like the stock market, and they all go IPO when a law declares them copyrightable. I wonder who owns sign language?

"Google procured a virtual machine for Android intended to avoid all of Sun's JVM patents"<p>Well that makes them either naive or stupid. They should have tried to acquire a license from Sun whilst they were friendly towards Android.<p>And I don't know what planet the author is from but Google having to pay royalties for Android wouldn't change the mobile market at all. Ask Microsoft.