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• David Mohring (NZheretic)

  2007-11-14 03:45:08

  It is highly unlikely that Google will take the bait give the effort it has gone to to avoid similar issues with Sun's Java ME
  
  How Google routed around Sun's IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/

• Roy Schestowitz

  2007-11-14 09:51:50

  Thanks, David. You're right...
  
  'Sun released their "free java" source code under the GPLv2 to both win the free software crowd and capture peripheral innovation and bug fixing from the community.'
  
  Then again, have a look at what I found just hours I had posted this quick one. The last thing one needs on these phones is a .NET-like framework that Microsoft deliberately excludes from its patent deals.
  
  I believe Microsoft has a plan and I wonder how it's coordinated with Mono developers (if at all). Mind you, some of them still support OOXML and even help Microsoft address comments (on behalf on Microsoft). They are on the team that attacks ODF using a proprietary format, essentially.

• John Drinkwater

  2007-11-14 13:04:07

  Miguel has a serious case of “ooh, lets add that to Mono to make people use it!”, Whether it’s Andriod or Silverlight.
  
  I don’t think he understands. They already have a quick small VM (dalvik) for their phone. We already have a quick small VM (java) for our desktops. Lets not EEE and consume them all with Mono.
  
  TBH, I’m not happy with Google writing yet another VM, but if that’s what they need to avoid Sun royalties/quirks (to make phone companies less dependent on Sun control), then so be it.

• eet

  2007-11-14 15:40:43

  Again "infect". Please get the Nazi-vocabulary out of your system, OK?
  
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• Victor

  2007-11-14 17:17:01

  Have you noticed how google android looks like iPhone operational system? Compare the functions shown in the videos below: weshow.com/us/p/23362/google_android_demo weshow.com/us/p/18795/iphone_home_made_review What do you think? Will google bring iPhone power to everyone who can't afford apple products? That would be great :D

• Roy Schestowitz

  2007-11-14 22:08:39

  Again “infect”. Please get the Nazi-vocabulary out of your system, OK?

  
  
  Please stop bringing nationalist connotation to this. The words 'infect' (or 'contaminate') needn't invoke Godwin's Law. They are used elsewhere in the same context, so I merely borrow them.

• SundayRefugee

  2007-11-15 07:25:37

  eet, "infect" would be a biological or medical term. Not a Nazi term. That should be simple enough to understand ;-)

• Roy Schestowitz

  2007-11-15 19:21:41

  Again, you turn a discussion about phones into something racial, which is isn't. You're bordering the slanderous.

• eet

  2007-11-15 18:03:53

  No, that is quite typical. Nazis (and racists in general) mis-use biological terms for social phenomena. They portrayed Jews as an 'infection' for the body of the German people and claimed to have traced their 'tainting' influence on the German race and culture everywhere. This whole 'infection'/'tainting'-hysteria about Novell very, very strongly reflects a dangerous mindset.
  
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• SundayRefugee

  2007-11-15 20:53:32

  eet, that's not the context it was used in, and you know it. It was used in a classic sense of biological infection. You're sort of a bizzare reverse-Godwin's Law. You make comments about "Conspiracy Theorists", yet you voraciously attempt to find and insert vulgarity, hatred, and ulterior motives in Roy (and Shane's?) posts that aren't there, ala repeated attempts to link their commentaries with Nazism. This is classic CT behavior ;)

• eet

  2007-11-16 10:22:07

  The use of biological terms that compare people or ideas with illnesses is classic racist behavior; whether you like it or not. People without good arguments to make but with a lot of hatred tend to use harsh clinical terms. Be a man and get your mind (and language) out of the gutter.
  
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• SundayRefugee

  2007-11-16 12:35:30

  "Be a man and get your mind (and language) out of the gutter."
  
  You'd do well to take your own advice, mate. But regardless, this is the last time I acknowledge your trolling on this site ;-)

• BlackTiger

  2008-10-01 11:50:23

  Interesting... How "so much open" G will not allow to use Mono on Android? One more "evil empire" rising (or already here)?