By spilling coffee Oracle scares Solaris users, upsets the GNU/Linux community, and helps show what a joke (literally) software patents are
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Google vows to fight Oracle lawsuit as Java creator speaks out
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Google has vowed to fight Oracle's patent lawsuit over use of Java patents in Android, claiming that Android's Dalvik implementation is not covered. Meanwhile, Java creator James Gosling blogs that neither side in the lawsuit is without blame, but calls the suit a victory for "ego, money and power" at the expense of open software development.
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Shuttleworth: Oracle's Java Lawsuit 'An Extremely Unsophisticated Move'
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Last week's move by Oracle to sue Google over Java use in the Android open source mobile operating system, may well end up having an impact that effects far more that just Android. And that has some key stakeholders in the open source community concerned.
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Oracle vs. Google over Java in Android is only the start.
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I don't think Oracle suing Google over the use of Java in Android has much to do with Android at all. I think it has everything to do with Oracle monetizing Java anyway it can. That spells big trouble for any company or developer who uses Java...
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Google Rebuts Oracle Lawsuit, Invokes Open-Source Defense
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Hours after Oracle filed suit against Google for patent infringement, Google has made it very clear that it will stand its ground. “We are disappointed Oracle has chosen to attack both Googleand the open-source Java community with this baseless lawsuit,” Google said in a statement to Mashable earlier today.
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A look back at Professor Moglen's words about Java and last week's talk about software patents; a Microsoft-fueled agitator attacks Apple, Cisco and other Microsoft rivals using patents
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Defending Free Software against Oracle's attack
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To me writing code is a means of Free Speech, and the Free Software movement is about preserving my rights of Free Speech in the face of the US patent system which is trying to cut down what I can say. Attacking the Oracle patent claims, and writing software to undermine their market position is the least I can do. If enough people think and do the same, I hope we can cause them trouble.
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Red Hat Converts C# Code to Java While Apple Outright Rejects C#
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Very encouraging new signs that Mono/C#, Flash, and Silver Lie are being buried in an age of standards and resentment against software patents
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Get to know Apache Click Java EE
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Get introduced to Apache Click, a Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) Web application framework that enables the creation of Web applications without using Model-View-Controller (MVC) patterns or JavaServer Pages (JSP). This article provides examples of displaying a simple Web page and creating a Web form that submits data that is displayed on a different Web page.
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What's wrong with JavaEE 6?
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Members of the Java Community Process (JCP) voted to approve the JavaEE 6 specification this week, concluding two years of discussions and development. Yet even after JCP members' approval for JSR-316, the Java Specification Request (JSR) that defines the new Java spec, the release still has its detractors.
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New to Java programming?
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New to Java programming? This page provides an overview of Java technology basics and explains how the technology fits into the context of contemporary software development.
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News: C is Still the Most Popular Open Source Language
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C represents more than 40% of all code written for open source software. But this figure comes from counting lines of code. What about Java and PHP, or C++?
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Coverity Advances Software Integrity Research at Top Academic Institutions
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Company Donates Industry-Leading Static Analysis Software and Expands Licensing Program
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Java development outpaces C# development on all platforms
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According to the “Normalized Comparison” and “Normalized Discussion Site Results” on LangPop, the Internet’s largest programming language survey, Java is #2 on those two categories, C holds the #1 spot both, C# holds the #6 on “Normalized Comparison” and #7 on “Normalized Discussion Site Results”.
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Oracle Buys Sun: It's Official
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Here's the press release. So they own Java and Solaris and MySQL, not to mention all the patents Sun
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