>The DoJ ruling merely means they can't really leverage those patents against Google to stifle them more, which I'm sure the legal departments of Apple, Microsoft, and Oracle would have loved to do. It means those patents are less of a threat, but it wasn't a win for Google either.
No. The DoJ ruling means that they can't leverage the patents against Linux. The OIN patent license only applies to Linux code. That doesn't necessarily apply to the Android UI, for example.
That's the primary reason that I think the DoJ would have made the same ruling. It gives the Linux code the same protections that they had with Novell.
No. The DoJ ruling means that they can't leverage the patents against Linux. The OIN patent license only applies to Linux code. That doesn't necessarily apply to the Android UI, for example.
That's the primary reason that I think the DoJ would have made the same ruling. It gives the Linux code the same protections that they had with Novell.