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Re:Oracle seeks $9.3B for Google’s use of Java in Android by dogma1138 on Monday March 28, 2016 @03:52PM (#11376857)
You wouldn't give a shit either if you could get nearly 10bln dollars for it.

Most people would sell their mother for that amount, and it's a bit hard to come to your investors and say well guys we could've gotten 10bln which would give you a heck of a dividend but we cared about our reputation too much so we passed on it.

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Re:Oracle seeks $9.3B for Google’s use of Java in Android by crispyambulance on Monday March 28, 2016 @04:05PM (#11376949)
Yeah, but how much have they expended on this legal adventure already? It has been going on for ~6 years now and there's no end in sight, no clear victory for anybody. Doesn't Oracle have better things to do?
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Re:Oracle seeks $9.3B for Google’s use of Java in Android by dogma1138 on Monday March 28, 2016 @04:12PM (#11376992)
Considerably less than 10bln, say even if they spent 100m on legal fees, that's still about 1% of what they would end up earning that's 1:100 return on investment no one would in their right mind would pass on that.
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Re:Oracle seeks $9.3B for Google’s use of Java in Android by crispyambulance on Monday March 28, 2016 @04:26PM (#11377100)
OK, but it is still a roll of the dice and there are costs beyond legal fees. 1:100 is _highly_ unlikely. Lawsuits are a crappy way to make money for a software company.
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Re:Oracle seeks $9.3B for Google’s use of Java in Android by nxzero on Monday March 28, 2016 @04:47PM (#11377266)
Creating a startup to service the CIA is a pretty crap move too; Oracle's launch was largely fueled by creating the database for the CIA in the late 1970s.
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Re:Oracle seeks $9.3B for Google’s use of Java in Android by dogma1138 on Monday March 28, 2016 @05:09PM (#11377405)
You mean like Google(Keyhole/Google Earth) and Facebook which both received funding from the CIA through their investment company In-Q-Tel?

https://www.iqt.org/

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Re:Oracle seeks $9.3B for Google’s use of Java in Android by nxzero on Monday March 28, 2016 @06:27PM (#11377944)
If you're going down that path, might as well reference that the research done by Page & Brin that created Google was funded in part by DARPA.
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Re:Oracle seeks $9.3B for Google’s use of Java in Android by michaelmrose on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @01:01PM (#11382904)
How about someone with a shred of dignity and decency
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Re:Oracle seeks $9.3B for Google’s use of Java in Android by xbmcuser on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @02:38PM (#11383767)
They bought Sun specifically to sue Google don't see them giving that up easily
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Re:Oracle seeks $9.3B for Google’s use of Java in Android by crpatino on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @04:43PM (#11392839)
They are not going to get $10^9 for it, they are asking for that much because asking is free.

But then, when the rubble stops bouncing and the companies come to an agreement, that high watermark will help them negociate an actual price that is both reasonable but higher than what otherwise would have been.

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Re:Oracle seeks $9.3B for Google’s use of Java in Android by photonwins on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @04:35AM (#11380231)
"most" or "some"?
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