About time somebody smacked Google..
The case, Google v. Oracle, has overarching ramifications.
Source: Shane Trejo
A key lawsuit that is currently playing out in the courts,Google v. Oracle, has the potential to break Google’s unethical corporate monopoly over the tech industry without major federal action.
Google has been accused of stealing over 11,000 lines of another firm’s code in order to develop its popular and lucrative Android operating system. Before Android, Googlewas not even in the top 100 American companiespertaining to revenue in 2010. After Android, Googleis just outside of the top 10 American companiesin terms of revenue today.
Google is accused of exploiting Java SE software that was programmed by Sun Microsystems in order to make their obscene profits. Sun agreed to grant a three-year license to Google for a total of $100 million, but Google did not want to pay the price to use…
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