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The we had earlier concerning some pretty embarrassing examples of proprietary Oracle source code residing within Android source files may not be as serious or damaging as once thought. But Ars Technica’s Ryan Paul highlights that (1) the source code brought up by open source enthusiast and tech patent lawyer, Florian Mueller, is from a third party entity that included in Android’s Open Source Project repository. Second, much of the code in question is available from Sun’s website free of charge. With both of those points highlighted, the previous “wow factor” is quite as astonishing. Nevertheless, it will be interesting to see how it affects the current, ongoing lawsuit between Google and Oracle.
Be sure to check out Ars Technica’s full, detailed explanation on the matter.
- January 21, 2011 11:34 am
It’s a bad day to be a Google and avid Android distributor (such as your typical cellular carrier), as tech patent aficionado Florian Mueller, has found some rather startling finds whilst trudging through mountains of Android source code. In relation to the ongoing Oracle/Google lawsuit involving Android and it’s apparent patent infringement of Java, Mueller has found 37 Android source files contain blatantly stolen code from Oracle as they are labeled with:
PROPRIETARY / CONFIDENTIAL” and “DO NOT DISTRIBUTE” by Oracle / Sun
Google obviously already knows the code is there. The carriers and other distributors of Android devices, however, aren’t likely to be all that thrilled. Let us not forget that Motorola and HTC have already been hit with patent infringement lawsuits for some of Android’s (and Google’s) little Java-copying issue. Looks like Google’s defense just got a much heavier load to pull…
Those looking forward to a new storage format for OS X will be sorely disappointed. ZFS which was to be the successor to the current HFS+ sometime down the road appears to have been shelved indefinitely. As 9to5 Mac highlights a comment from
- September 8, 2009 5:42 am
Imagine driving down the road and looking out in front of your car and seeing the roadway light up with markings or directions. Such a sight might make you think of some science fiction movie or some futuristic technology that is still decades from becoming reality. However, the technology and deployment may not be that far off. Instead of the typical asphalt based roadway that does nothing but cause us to use more petroleum based products, the solar roadway could actually make us more independent. The company with the technology, Solar Roadways, has been given a $100,000 grant by the U.S. Department of Transportation to further develop a prototype of the solar roadway mentioned above. The power harnessed by even a smaller 12′ x 12′ section could top 7.6 kilowatt hours. Moving on to bigger sections such as a mile long section of highway could provide enough energy to power 500 homes! As mentioned previously, adding LED lights to the roadway could also provide drivers with short bits of information as well as provide the lane markings reducing the need for road paint.
Naturally, the thought of driving on LED’s and glass can make some uneasy. Though, with as many incredible feats I’ve seen attained with glass, a roadway is but another notch in the belt of science.
Source: Dvice, Dvorak, Physorg
