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Oracle Sues Google over using Java in Android

Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google, charging that its Android phone software infringes Oracle patents and copyrights related to Java, Oracle said Thursday.

"In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property. This lawsuit seeks appropriate remedies for their infringement," Oracle spokeswoman Karen Tillman said in a statement.

via computerworld.com

It seems like the many people that have worried about Java being a company controlled language as opposed to a community controlled one are correct, especially those that suspected that Oracle would be much more closed about it than Sun was... This is a great way to kill the language and make people afraid to use OpenJDK in any commercial software.

Data sent out to Google by Google Chrome

Google has posted a thorough explanation of the data that Google Chrome sends to Google and others and how to opt out of it. I give Google brownie points for this, but... where is my Chrome for Linux, yo? ;)

Chrome Easter Egg

Easter eggs always make me happy, and while I can run the browser
(except in VMWare, which barely counts), I have to share this one.

Google Chrome

Google just released the beta version of a new browser, complete with a neat comic book about it. It sounds neat, and I'd love to play with it, but like everything non web based that Google releases, it currently only runs on Windows (and while you can build the source for Mac OS X, there is no such luck for Linux). This makes me a sad panda. Hopefully they get a GUI working on Linux in the near future.

(And I can't build it on my Mac, since the Mac build is Leopard only, anyways...)

Videos up from Google I/O

They'll all at this Google Site, which inexplicably requires you to login with a Google Account. Looks like a lot of neat stuff. Now all I have to do is find the time to watch the stuff that interests me.