Oracle seeks $9.3B for Google’s use of Java in Android

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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