We’d rebuilt ourselves for a drawn-out legal conflict between Oracle and Google when we heard a former was suing the latter for Java-related copyright infringement, though fortunately for Android enthusiasts, not everybody was so quiescent. A team of developers have been operative on an Android fork called IcedRobot (yep, that’s a logo) to apart the offending Dalvik Virtual Machine from the OS, hopefully circumventing this epic argument altogether. The plan seeks to emanate a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that is formed upon OpenJDK (an open-source doing of Java), avoiding Oracle’s Apache Harmony, and to allow Android to run upon only about any PC with a use of Hotspot, an additional device non-specific JVM using open-source Java. It’s the high sequence, as well as the diabolical small Android has already gained the full of health volume of tech attention doubt, though we’re interested to see if these guys can have it work. Either way, we’re flattering certain we’ve still got years of authorised volleying to go prior to Google and Oracle can play nice again — this ain’t no People’s Court, folks.

Via Engadget