How Oracle might kill Google’s Android and software patents all at once

Daniel Eran Dilger is the apple fanatics fanatic, a sort of uberfanatic. The key enemy of these guys at the moment is Google, because Android is competing with Apple. Before that it was MS, and Dell always has been a favorite bete noir, because it supplied mid range affordable computing of the sort your average Apple fanatic scorns.

As for the article, the best thing to compare it to is the intellectual gyrations one found in Pravda in the days of the Soviet Union. Party hacks jumped through the most bizarre hoops to find positive pro Party spns to put on it. Well, this is DEG. Content to spin ratio, around 1% if that.

DEG remember was the guy who argued that Apple had double the share the agencies reported it has having, because it sold OS and hardware. Yes, sure.

Basically, its one long rehash of 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'. Did you notice by the way the superb giveaway in the 'white trash' line? That is the authentic and ugly voice of your Apple fanatic snob at its finest.

Thanks for the info & intro! I always like some background before reading an article.

I enjoyed how he tried to make it seem that Google was somehow performing some attack on the 'freedom loving oracle' who supports openness and the GPL with arms wide open. That somehow the only response that these folks who have fought for patent reform for years was to assert their patent claims. Here is what a company who is truly interested in openness does, they unencumber the rest, not perform a nuclear first strike.

If Steve Jobs is a messiah Daniel is one of his prophets (who in turn apparently has disciples). Such wit and wisdom from a follower of the man who often said, "good artists copy, great artists steal".

"Once the iPhone and other platforms reach Verizon over the next six months, Android’s sales will scale back down domestically, and all the platform will have to recommend itself is a lot of adware, malware, copyright violations and fraudware pushed underhanded developers looking to bilk an audience in a market with no curator. On top of all this, it will also have a top software maker seeking to eviscerate its core development platform, necessitating a significant reworking of what Android even is. Who wants to invest in development for that? Especially if all your work is just going to be pirated by all the Android freetards."

Ah yes its those freetards, white trash the lot of them, in their uncurated markets....

Quoting:Oracle likes Linux so much that it funds Btrfs, a GPL licensed, futuristic and advanced new file system that supports pooling, snapshots, checksums, and other features that sound a lot like Sun’s ZFS, which Oracle now also owns. The difference is that Oracle didn’t mire Btrfs in legal quandary the way Sun did with ZFS before Oracle bought them.

That fact not only highlights that Oracle is just as “open source friendly” as Google, but that it’s also more responsible in developing open source software in such a way that it doesn’t recklessly expose itself to being sued the way Sun did, or the way Google did.

Huh? They support one project that serves their Oracle DB business very well, and kill off Open Solaris. Yet the selective Daniel asserts his favorite "highlight" is enough to support the notion that Oracle is “open source friendly”.

I'd say it shows Oracle is perhaps "open source opportunistic" at best and reserve any judgment on "OS friendly" until I've reviewed more of their open source relationships in the last year or so.