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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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