I can't report on how easy his demo is to understand because I can't see it from this angle but from the mumbling it's impossible
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Google: At the time you were working on Android, were you aware of something called GNU Classpath? GNU!!!!!!!!!
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ANOTHER GNU MENTION, DRINK
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Google: How about Bouncy Castle, does that phrase mean anything to you?
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It's an open source implementation.
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Jury is watching Bornstein intently.
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He's explaining... how code comes from Apache Harmony to Android?
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I'm not 100% certain on what was just explained
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Google: Did you consider Java API declarations to be more important than any other part of the Android platform code? B: No.
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How many lines of code in Android platform? Bornstein: 10 or 12 million, something like that.
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(Android platform at the time, when Bornstein worked on it)
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Total # of API packages implemented in Android as a whole: 160 or 170.
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50 of them were Java API packages.
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Google: Why did Google develop Android API packages? Bornstein: There wasn't anything like what we wanted to achieve out there in the world
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Bornstein: So we had to write it ourselves.
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Bornstein: Android was this different context for running code in general.
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B: We were looking at this previously existing set of APIs that had been defined, not all of them made sense in the context of a smartphone.
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Bornstein: It was up to me to decide which pieces of that to include in our core libraries.
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I think this is the first piece of testimony I've heard that is at all related to a fair use determination.
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He said it was "too late," their implementation was still in progress but they had really gotten going already.
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Bornstein: A very common thing in our industry is something exists, and someone else takes the ideas as a basis & makes a new implementation
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Cross-examination of Bornstein begins.
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In the grand taxonomy of nerds, I'd place Bornstein in a hybrid class somewhere between a Schwarz and a Bloch
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Oracle is asking about the Cupcake source code. Man, Hurst loves mentioning Android versions by name.
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Looking at the color-coded chart of Android elements. Hurst: Everything above those core libraries depends on those to work, right?
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"Isn't it true that you instructed your contractor that you could not use Classpath code because it was covered by an incompatible license?"
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B says that he was not in a position to be giving legal advice but at the time he believed that was what they were supposed to be doing
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An email is being offered for impeachment.
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