in an email to the endsoftwarepatents.org executive director:
I think a massive stand against this needs to be taken, in support of Free Software / Open Source Software.
Below is the content of an email I sent to the Apache Software Foundation because of this legal action. I hope it inspires you to promote a similar action across the entire Free Software / Open Source Software community.
against use of Oracle’s I.P. JAVA.
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Just a Thought to rattle some shuttered minds in the software industry.
Since Oracle is suing Google over I.P. infringement for the Android os for smart phones, I think that to shock Oracle into withdrawing the suit and demonstrate just how much Free Software / Open Source Software has embedded itself in business. Apache Software Foundation should put ALL Java projects on hold and disable downloading of them until the issue is resolved.
All these project pages to have a temporary re-direct to a noice that if Oracle wins the legal action against Google these projects will be no more, as the ASF will not be able to pay Oracle license fees. 😉
With Tomkat being the most widely used Java server in the enterprise, this will have many of Oracle’s clients screaming at them all on it’s own.
Adding in the rest of the ASF projects just increases the number of complaints at Oracle.
I know that no ASF project actually infringes on Oracle’s I.P. for Java, they don’t ship the sun jvm/jree/j2ee with them to be in violation. It would just really shatter the insular mindset of many proprietary software companies, as well as hardware companies that refuse to support the free software / open source software operating systems to have a mass show of how far it has penetrated into the world of business.
For what it’s worth, I myself will not touch Java, and have had that stand for years. It is environmentally unsound to use Java.
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