Not as interesting as this smoking gun from Andy Rubin. This is pretty damning evidence of willful infringement on the part of Google.
One of the most interesting passages in today's order quotes from an October 2005 email by Google's Android boss Andy Rubin back in 2005:
"If Sun doesn't want to work with us, we have two options: 1) Abandon our work and adopt MSFT CLR VM and C# language - or - 2) Do Java anyway and defend our decision, perhaps making enemies along the way"
If a jury sees that statement (and if there is a trial, then the jury will see it for sure), Google has a very serious problem. And "very serious" may be an understatement. Moreover, a statement like that showing up in publicly accessible court documents now may cause significant concern among many of Google's Android partners (including, but not limited to, device makers).
For that quote to be relevant in court, it would have to be construed as willful patent infringement.
But we all know very well what "defend our decision" and "making enemies" refers to. It refers to the foreseeable shit storm resulting from fragmenting the Java community, abandonding J2ME and the JCP. This quote has nothing to do with patents in my view.
How is Andy Rubin saying what is implied by their actions damning or a cause for concern for Android's partners? Everyone knew from the start Android was "doing Java". So as Andy said, now they have to defend their decision. Just cause they knew Sun (now Oracle) may not like it beforehand does not make it an infringement.
I don't see how the statement is damning; they did exactly that and used Dalvik instead of something encumbered by Java's stack-based virtual machine patents.
One of the most interesting passages in today's order quotes from an October 2005 email by Google's Android boss Andy Rubin back in 2005:
"If Sun doesn't want to work with us, we have two options: 1) Abandon our work and adopt MSFT CLR VM and C# language - or - 2) Do Java anyway and defend our decision, perhaps making enemies along the way"
If a jury sees that statement (and if there is a trial, then the jury will see it for sure), Google has a very serious problem. And "very serious" may be an understatement. Moreover, a statement like that showing up in publicly accessible court documents now may cause significant concern among many of Google's Android partners (including, but not limited to, device makers).
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