Google beats Oracle

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nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
13,312
Finally a little common sense. Oracle's shenanigans are legendary.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...nst-oracle-as-jury-finds-android-is-fair-use/
SAN FRANCISCO—Following a two-week trial, a federal jury concluded Thursday that Google's Android operating system does not infringe Oracle-owned copyrights because its re-implementation of 37 Java APIs is protected by "fair use." The verdict was reached after three days of deliberations.
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Google countered that the Java language has always been "free and open" to use—and that included re-implementing Java APIs. Sun and its CEO Jonathan Schwartz accepted Android as a legitimate, if inconvenient, competitive product.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison welcomed Android at first, but later he "changed his mind, after he had tried to use Java to build his own smartphone and failed to do it," Google attorney Robert Van Nest told the jury.
 

123Rowen

Joined Jun 3, 2016
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In next 10/20 years Google will totally dominate the world software production and distrubtion. Just to compare in 2000 Google was controling about 50% of organic search in U.S. now it's more than 80/85%.
 

BR-549

Joined Sep 22, 2013
4,928
Anything can happen when you have 24/7 access to the white house for 8 years.

The number of personal meetings between the president and google execs is unprecedented.
 
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