Did Jonathan Schwartz Endorse Android’s Cleanroom Java Implementation?

A November 5th blog posting by Sun’s former CEO, Jonathon Schwartz, is being widely held as a smoking gun that undermines Oracle’s lawsuit against Android . But does it? I’m obviously a big Android booster (which, as most readers have noticed, does not make me a Google booster. I don’t wave their flag), but I think this is a pretty weak claim. Consider that Schwartz posted his blog entry congratulating Google on the same day that the Open Handset Alliance announced Android . In the OHA press release and you won’t find any mention of clean-room Java implementations, Dalvik, or other not-Java mentions. The best you’ll find is a third-party talking about their J2ME runtime. Prior to this, everyone simply talked about it being a Ja...