Google engineer admits "strong indication that it is likely" he copied Sun code into Android

Foss Patents ^ | September 7, 2011 | Florian Mueller

[krb]

seemingly cryptic application of indentation

With C you can indent any way you want. The BNF grammar for C considers tabs, spaces, and newlines as whitespace.

[KevinDavis]

As a coder (mainly PHP), I usually get my information from various sites that offer code as a sample. The coder from Google could have gotten it from there.. I don’t know.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

and the said engineer (Joshua Bloch, who previously worked for Sun and whose title at Google used to be, or still is, Chief Java Architect) even admitted in a deposition that he likely had access to the original Sun code when he wrote that code segment

Joshua Bloch isn't your every day run of the mill java coder.

[Gaffer]

So rather than denying that there was copying in play, Google argues that it should be allowed to copy such small amounts of code

Sorry judge, it was only a little bit! Honest!......I only shot him once - with a 22!.......I only grabbed her hooters a little bit! Bwaaahhhhaa....

It is true that there are only so many ways to implement some code functions but this is just plain ass laziness. Of course it was copied. Of course someone else's work was stolen without credit.

[Swordmaker]

Ignore anything that Florian Mueller publishes -because it is going to contain a very slanted point of view. I would suggest following Groklaw.net if you want to see a more accurate discussion of the blow-by-blow of the Google/Oracle lawsuit. They’ll also educate you on what the law is and what is important.

I have to disagree. I read and post articles from both. Florian Mueller has been spot on and pretty even handed. He publishes articles following the law as written, not as people wish it were in an idealized world. His viewpoint does fall more toward support of Free and Open Source Software licensing, and that's where his field of expertise lies. He also understands European laws far better than Groklaw, which is probably better in general law issues.