Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight

Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by snarf21 on Saturday November 16, 2019 @12:26PM (#21553743)

Exactly this. Oracle is nothing but a common patent troll here. They bought SUN for one and only one purpose..... to sue Google. I know someone involved in the preliminary investigations into this. It is not a secret at all. It would be awesome if Google would take the Cloudflare approach and try to crowdsource prior art for all of Oracle's patents. (Best case, 1M software patents go away on all sides)

Hopefully as things continue to the cloud with private options and their loss of the JEDI contract puts them right out of business.

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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by pacala on Saturday November 16, 2019 @01:21PM (#21554081)

Google had the option to buy SUN, too.

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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by dudus on Saturday November 16, 2019 @04:30PM (#21555084)

Why would they buy it if they weren't interested in the prospect of suing other people with it? In hindsight it would be a great defensive buy,but there's no way they could foresee this shit storm caused by this absurd lawsuit.

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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by pacala on Saturday November 16, 2019 @06:13PM (#21555538)

For the rights to the proprietary language around which they built their flagship mobile platform.

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