{"id":983,"date":"2011-09-09T00:54:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T00:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phaidon.philo.at\/qu\/?p=983"},"modified":"2018-11-19T18:22:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T18:22:10","slug":"rather-carrots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quatsch.philo.at\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"Rather carrots…"},"content":{"rendered":"
The smartphone platform Android has mixed up the mobile phone market. Releasing Android as open source suits developers and researchers. For example, it allows me to do research on automatic data leak detection for smartphones. At least research is more interesting and useful, if the source code of a major smartphone operating system is available, for free. So, from the user’s and researcher’s perspective, there is no reason to complain. I admit: I am a fan of Android and other Google products. But what about this slide?<\/div>\n
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It is a slide of an internal Google presentation. The responsible judge in a\u00a0law case\u00a0between Oracle and Google <\/a>gave access to it<\/a>. It reveals more about the strategies that high tech companies pursue. Of course, who thought that there is no hidden agenda when a big company publishes a state of the art technology as open source?<\/div>\n
It states that partners which adopt to specifications of Google get early and private access to new ‘internal’ branches of Android and get a market advantage over other companies. OK, it contradicts the open source principle. But it is a “win win situation”? (BTW: I believe that one major reason of Google’s success is that they heavily apply game theory on various levels – users follow an authorities ‘alignment’ voluntarily when they think it’s beneficial to do so… again the carrots).<\/div>\n
Arno Haesler stated in an interview in “Die Zeit”: Whenever two or more make a profit, we should look out for the excluded third who has to pay the total bill. Game theorists who aim for equilibria in their games could reply: “Yes, parties who do not participate in the game or who do not cooperate.” Or players who are not counted<\/em> as<\/em> participants, like competitors.\u00a0This is where recent juridical fights about intellectual property comes into play, or constitute a new game. Competitors in the mobile phone market like Apple or Oracle don’t profit in Google’s games. They get the sticks because others got the carrots. What can be observed in lawsuits is a game which (ideally) is not under control of one party and it’s aim is not an equilibrium, not a win win situation. The judge seeks justice. But here, in the law case\u00a0between Oracle and Google, it’s a farce<\/a>. The\u00a0counter parties\u00a0accumulated software patents, which were developed by people who have never worked for that companies. They employ lawyers and ask them to find ways to best exploit accumulated patents in lawsuits against competitors. It’s understandable that the judge asked the counterparties to settle it out of court.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The smartphone platform Android has mixed up the mobile phone market. Releasing Android as open source suits developers and researchers. For example, it allows me to do research on automatic data leak detection for smartphones. At least research is more interesting and useful, if the source code of a major smartphone operating system is available,Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20,104,108,138],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bric-a-brac","tag-android","tag-ip","tag-justice","tag-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quatsch.philo.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quatsch.philo.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quatsch.philo.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quatsch.philo.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quatsch.philo.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quatsch.philo.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"https:\/\/quatsch.philo.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quatsch.philo.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quatsch.philo.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quatsch.philo.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}