On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:55 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
So what's our escape plan from Java?
http://blogs.computerworld.com/16736/oracle_vs_google_over_java_in_android_…
(I work in a Java shop. I'd already recommended to my boss and boss's
boss that we get the hell off Solaris ASAP. Today we had a lot of Java
developers rather concerned for their careers.)
Oracle is only suing Google because Google is redistributing Java
without paying them, and because they're using a modified version (so
technically they're not covered by the patent grants), and because
Google has deep pockets. It's pretty implausible that they'll sue
users and developers directly. If they do, Wikimedia has little
enough money to be extremely low on their list. I don't think we need
to worry about this one way or the other at this point.