Last night, Oracle published a press release announcing their legal action against Google (though Google still hadn’t received the actual notice this morning apparently). The legal action is about patents relating to Java (as Oracle now owns Sun) and the crux of the matter seems to be that Android is competing with Java in the mobile phone market and Oracle isn’t happy.
You can find out more details at Oracle sues Google over Android and Java.
Are you surprised? I’m not. As sad as it is, it’s obvious that Oracle is trying to maximise their income from Java and they could make big money going after Google (Google certainly has the funds to pay them a lot of damages). Or they could lose a lot of money as Google also has the funds to hire top lawyers. We shall see what happens…
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