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Re:Google responds to Oracle's patent lawsuit by rulereric on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @11:57PM (#1762639)
Clean room design would be a defense against the copyright charge. They broke clean room design by hiring engineers from sun, jvm engineers etc. Even google's ceo came from sun and he lead java at sun.

The patents are integral to the JVM.

Google should have bought Palm and Sun for the patents.

.NET can step on the JVM patents: http://www.itworld.com/040409microsoftlegal

They got lucky with yahoo: http://news.cnet.com/Google,-Yahoo-bury-the-legal-hatchet/21... They could have been pushed out of the space. They are use to getting sweet deals in stomping on others patents, copyrights, etc.

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Re:Google responds to Oracle's patent lawsuit by acqq on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @05:56AM (#1763312)
> They broke clean room design by hiring engineers from sun, jvm engineers etc.

AFAIK not unless Oracle proves that exactly these engineers were involved. And a lot more must be first proved to establish even "involved in what."

> The patents are integral to the JVM.

Google doesn't use JVM in Android.

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