On: James Gosling joining Google

[zacharypinter]

This should add an interesting (though legally irrelevant) twist to the Oracle lawsuit, since they're litigating with some of Gosling's patents.

[kbutler → zacharypinter]

There could be legal relevance in expert testimony - "We considered this aspect obvious", "There was prior art in this aspect", etc.

[billmcneale → zacharypinter]

Not really, it's already the case with this patent:

http://www.google.com/patents?id=mEwEAAAAEBAJ

which was invented by Frank Yellin, who is currently a Google employee.

Everyone seeing Sun as the "good guy in the patent war" needs to remember that the Oracle/Google lawsuit was made possible because Sun has always been one the of companies filing the most software patents.