US Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle [LWN.net]

US Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle

Posted Apr 5, 2021 18:31 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: US Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle by jhhaller
Parent article: US Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle

> Obviously, both parties had the opportunity to switch to Android, and did.

I don't understand. The Kindle does not use Android, and never has. The Kindle Fire does use Android, and always has. Amazon never switched anything.

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US Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle

Posted Apr 5, 2021 19:14 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

And I presume Samsung and Amazon were using Java? That's very different to just re-implementing the API.

Cheers,
Wol

US Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle

Posted Apr 5, 2021 19:36 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

The Kindle uses cvm, rather than the more conventional desktop java VM, but yes it's the upstream thing, not a reimplementation.

US Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle

Posted Apr 5, 2021 19:30 UTC (Mon) by jhhaller (guest, #56103) [Link]

The Kindle must use Java ME, based on the decision. While it didn't change to Android, the Kindle Fire did not start with the Kindle base, but the Android base. I'm speculating there were discussions about changing new Kindles to Android if the price didn't drop. The BOM would have been higher, but a lower software cost may have made up for it.