Oracle’s dispute with Google about sökjättens use of Java technology in Android platform has completed, and Oracle loses on all counts.
Oracle and Google have waged a bitter legal battle since 2010. the basis of the dispute is based on Google using Java technology when they created the Android platform. Java was created by Sun Microsystems, and when the company was acquired by Oracle in 2010 began immediately a legal process against Google.
In the dispute claiming Oracle that Google has copied the core components of the Java outright, and has for many years made money through the Android platform in an improper manner. The two companies have already made up in court in 2012, where the central issue was whether a company will have the right to protect developing interfaces (APIs).
Oracle initially lost the appeal, but an appeal then gave Oracle the right which forced Google to change strategy. The new strategy was to argue that the use of these developing interfaces considered fair use (fair use) when the Java platform is open.
The HTC-built phone G1 was the first Android operating system, an operating system that Oracle claims contains code stolen from the Java platform .
the new strategy proved to be a winning one, and Oracle lost on all points. Oracle had won the dispute, Google had been forced to pay massive damages, speculation indicates $ 9 billion as a potential figure. The external companies that use Android in their products would also risk falling into their own legal battles, with their own damages or expensive settlements as a result.
Oracle has announced that it intends to submit an appeal , so once the dispute is not over, but the verdict is nonetheless a significant win for Google and the entire Android ecosystem.
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