Google Loses Appeal Decision over Java copyright violation when it created Android

Star-Dust

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Google set up a new operating system called fuchsia. It does not use the Linux kernel or Java, it will not have to pay any rights.
 

Beja

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Anyways, China will continue with Android.. They may even buy Java from Oracle. They have the cash.. I am just wondering how much Oracle paid to Sun for Java.
 

Beja

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I think it's now time that Erel (more seriously) consider option zero.
 

Mashiane

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And they have been doing Flutter and Fuchsia perhaps they saw this coming a long way... or might just shake hands on it and continue with business as usual. Lol. Highly unlikely, the issue seems is competition, Google using Oracles open source java in competitive infrastructure that will affects Oracle pockets, lack of "fair use".
 

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No more Linux, Android, or Java. Instead they will replace it with a cross device OS where everything is stored in the Cloud and the UI is controlled by a javascript type language called Dart. I'm sure it will be as popular as Chrome.
 

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Widget said:
Google may owe Oracle $8 billion over its misuse of the Java API when it created Android.
Could Oracle also decide to require Android devices to pay a license fee?

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/google-loses-oracle-appeal-may-owe-billions/
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Before Oracle purchased acquire Java, I remember having a discussion with friends of mine who are developers too. I said that Google should acquire Java before anybody else does, but they didn't. So this is the fall out and it was absolutely obvious that Oracle was going to do this when they first touted acquiring Java, that's when Google should have made an high offer for it and purchased from under Oracles nose, but they didn't.
 

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So Oracle purchased Java to sue Google to earn some hard cash !

Smart move. Purchasing a company/domain/etc. not to develop but to encash.
We poor developers always suffer like when MS purchased Foxpro. Sigh.

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Anand
 

Mashiane

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AnandGupta said:
So Oracle purchased Java to sue Google to earn some hard cash !

Smart move. Purchasing a company/domain/etc. not to develop but to encash.
We poor developers always suffer like when MS purchased Foxpro. Sigh.

Regards,

Anand
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I could be wrong, never used foxpro but just skimmed through it, looked like LightSwitch, also which now they have stopped. Jah neh..
 
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AnandGupta said:
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We poor developers always suffer like when MS purchased Foxpro. Sigh.
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I agree with the DOS version of FoxPro. I really missed the Fox Software version of that after Microsoft bought it. But, Microsoft really started to make a great product with their Visual FoxPro (VFP) in version 5 and then 7 and 9. Fantastic database tool and data-centric software development platform. Just nothing like it (then or now) to develop those kinds of systems. There's still a LOT of VFP developers and software out there based on it. Even some early, large, database-based websites were built with it in the mid-late 90's. I still use it weekly to maintain code and connect to a wide variety of databases.
 

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Yes, and then MS abandoned it (Visual Foxpro 9.0). No further development, officially.

I am converting all my VFP 9.0 apps to HMG (Harbour MiniGui), as clients requirements are changing and maintaining those in VFP is become problem.
Thanks to HMG, which has proved more robust and powerful.

Regards,

Anand
 

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AHilton said:
There's still a LOT of VFP developers and software out there based on it. Even some early, large, database-based websites were built with it in the mid-late 90's. I still use it weekly to maintain code and connect to a wide variety of databases.
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VFP was really something. Wrote allot of code in it.
 

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HMG is a xCode transpiler and compiler, is there any tool to convert (forms, reports...) in HMG
Is a VFP project convertion is a long process?

Thanks
 
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