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Of course I don't want Oracle to win, but is this really an aggressive move? The "kitchen sink" approach could be aggressive, but in a way it feels like the "DA throwing every charge they can at a suspect" hoping something sticks.

Also, claiming that the Dalik VM is not a Java VM doesn't seem right.

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Dalvik doesn't run Java executable code, therefore it isn't a Java VM. If you open up Dalvik up to being a Java VM even through it doesn't run Java code directly then it follows that every CPU and VM is a Java VM.

As I understand it, Dalvik bytecodes have basically the same semantics as Java bytecodes, but this is not the case for other VMs or processors. I don't think the question of whether Dalvik is really Java or not is relevant to the Oracle/Google lawsuit, though.

Actually, Dalvik is a register-based VM and the Java VM is stack-based -- so they don't have the same semantics.

I agree that it's not really relevant to the lawsuit, but I suspect a lot of VMs (especially the .NET CLR) contain designs covered by Oracle's patents.

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