frank pope

Only 11,000 lines....
hmmmmmm
but these were lines not really code, just names.
11,000 commands !!!!
How many commands does Ann Droid need to marshall her minions?
Oh wait, Giggle has those special commands 
copywrited but not patented.
No they are TRADE SECRETS.
and NO since not licensed left or right,
Giggle will not share back to the "open" community.

Habi_tweet said:

gatorguy said:

...except that according to some of the best law professors in the US this should never have been reversed in the first place as API's should not be copyright eligible to begin with.

Here's how Sun's CEO explained API's as they relate to Java:

"An API is like a restaurant menu. An implementation is the food itself. So two restaurants can offer “hamburgers,” using the same word for two different dishes. The word “hamburger” lets the customer know approximately what they’re getting, it’s a useful shorthand that lets them parse menus that across many different restaurants.

BUT, an API isn't a restaurant menu, and no you can not copy another restaurants menu and just change the restaurant logo. Its a crime of copyright.... Where do you people read up on copyright / patent law?

BTW you can create that API in about 1000000 ways to do the same but you couldn' t use the same API calls for the same functionality, The only thing here is that Google needed JAVA programmers and not "Android" programmers that where available directly...

Don't you get it?
Thats what "transformative" means!
Giggle transformed millions of Java programmers into minions of Ann Droid.
Programmers! Programmers! Programmers! Right?

It is my fevered hope, but who can say in the crazy world we live in,
that a certain judge who got taken to the woodshed,
but did not learn his lesson,
is about to find out what happens when he really pisses off his betters.

Enjoyed the article as usual.

We are getting closer to the time when Giggle makes an honest woman of Ann Droid.
My guess is that all we will see is a puff of smoke, some money changing hands
and a new "java free" android will appear
or android becomes totally open source and Giggle takes its secret sauce and moves on to a "better" platform.

My comment on this article is to suggest
that we keep the real apple products clearly in focus.

Apple produces hardware and software and services.
Very good ones at that.

The "free" market is what produces the share price on apple stock.
Rational market my xxx!
This is not capitalism, the greed heads who manipulate market prices
ride apple and google etc up and down endlessly only to their own end$$$$$.
Sad but true.