When the Java programming language burst onto the scene in the mid-'90s, the mantra was "write once, run anywhere." Any Java coder will tell you that dream never quite became a reality, and while plenty have worked on ways to make Java code run like instructions specialized for this or the other family of processors, Nazomi Communications wants there to be only one: its way. The company was founded in the late '90s by
Sun expatriates and created some processors capable of running compiled Java code natively. Now its biggest production is a lawsuit against
Amazon,
Microsoft,
Nokia,
Garmin,
Sling, and others for patent infringement. Exactly which patent hasn't been made clear at this point, but we wouldn't be surprised if it's 6,332,215, the same one the company referenced when suing ARM back in 2007. Nazomi lost that suit (plus a subsequent appeal) and, given how much we dislike these
annoying patent disputes from tiny, seemingly struggling companies (Nazomi currently has four whole employees according to LinkedIn), we're hopeful that all these lawsuits go away soon too.
posted February 11th 2010 8:24AM
In the words of ATLAS
"God damn splicers!"
@tehslax FTW!
BioShock!
@tehslax
I'm totally hitting that up this weekend. I just finished with Mass Effect 2 (1st play through) so I need to change it up a little bit.
"write once, run anywhere."
or
""write once, debug everywhere."
Naomi? She is a porn star! Wait, it's Nazomi
I wonder if Nazomi is hoping all these companies will chip in to buy them out so they can tear up the patent?
"write once run everywhere'. Ah the days of netscape and a level playingfield for all Os'es. Wonder what happened to that dream?
Where's Apple?
Four whole employees versus the world= fail
"Exactly which patent hasn't been made clear at this point, but we wouldn't be surprised if it's 6,332,215, the same one the company referenced when suing ARM back in 2007. Nazomi lost that suit (plus a subsequent appeal)"
If at first you don't succeed, sue someone else. If you fling enough shit at a wall, some of it is bound to stick.
@airmikee
"given how much we dislike these annoying patent disputes from tiny, seemingly struggling companies"
So if its Microsoft or Apple that had a patent stolen, we're all "OMG How dare you mess with Microsoft or Apple!%". But when its the little man who put the effort in and gets stepped on because he doesn't have enough money yet, the response is, "What a piece of trash. Who do they think they are trying to stand up for themselves?" I see now. *Updates logic set: Large company good. Small company bad.
@credo
Not sure why you felt the need to reply to me about something I didn't say.
I hate all patent disputes, I think the entire system is FUBAR and I hope the Supreme Court smacks down intellectual property patents. Is that better for you?
@airmikee
Because it fit. I'm sorry you don't agree with patents. I'm sorry you don't feel the need to protect the assets of those who put the time, effort, AND money into developing them. I'm sorry you don't believe in capitalism (sometimes I don't either, it just gets in the way yeah?). And mostly, I'm sorry that you voiced your opinion you communist! GET HIM! (sorry that last one was a bit of a stretch, but it sure was fun!)
Using LinkedIn as some kind of reference for how many employees they have? For shaaame! :op
Well I guess its fitting for a company with a name that strikes an astonishing resemblance to the word nazi.
@clowns
As you must know, Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, empowers the United States Congress "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." So we're gonna have patents. And in America, we idolize the little guy and rugged individuality, or we'd kill first to invent.
The drum beat of disputes is irritating. Solution: stop treating them ALL as news. Only some are news. You know how no-one reports vanilla murders on the 11 o'clock news in Detroit. It's gotta be something really out of the ordinary. Same for engadget - go ahead, report only the most newsworthy patent verdicts (like Word getting shut down), but not every suit against Microsoft etc. They are all defending tens of suits every year (just like they are defending labor, product liability, financial controls, blah blah blah). Behind the scenes are piles more settlements. Legal noise for a big corporation - including patent noise for any big technology company - is not news.
Even on a slow news day, you can do better.