[Info-vax] Posts

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/27/2024 8:58 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 27 May 2024 20:15:09 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> I think many underestimate the effort it takes to open source
>> proprietary code. There is a well known example. Sun Java -> OpenJDK.
>> That was a top-priority of the new Sun CEO. But it still took 12 months
>> to release 96% of the code. And it took a few more years to get the last
>> 4% replaces with open source.
> 
> And then Oracle sued Google over it anyway.

No.

Oracle sued Google over using code independently developed
that implemented a large number of API's from that code base
without being able to pass the TCK.

Goggle eventually won in supreme court and avoided penalties.
But before that they had resolved the issue by replacing the
independently developed code base with the above mentioned
code.

Arne