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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by pjmlp on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @01:37PM (#16690889)
That's the story Google likes to sell.

Nokia and Sony-Ericsson flagship phones were quite good.

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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by monocasa on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @01:42PM (#16690933)
No they weren't, I developed for them.
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by pjmlp on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:02PM (#16691108)
Me too, alumni from that little company located in Espoo.
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by geodel on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:43PM (#16691524)
I hope that little company does not come under pressure to make Android phones.
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by pjmlp on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:07PM (#16691756)
It is hard to compete against a free beer OS originally developed with tech unlawfully taken from other companies.

So one either swims or joins the graveyard of companies that tried to fight it.

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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by monocasa on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:39PM (#16692015)
> It is hard to compete against a free beer OS

I'd argue that it's next to impossible. OSes are a commodity now. Even Microsoft is coming around to that idea.

> tech unlawfully taken from other companies.

All of the previous caselaw said that this was fine.

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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by monocasa on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:25PM (#16691359)
I was third party. Maybe your close association is blinding you.
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