Google to settle Oracle over infringements on Java

Posted by admin at May 14, 2014

As developers enjoy the free and open Android platform, Google takes a beating from Oracle for copyright infringements. As a web developer you are looking for shortcuts to providing better, faster solutions for all. Now, the mobile app industry is habited with a lot of platforms and standards, a wise company would try to make it easier for more third-party developers to create compatible apps with its product. This is what Google tried to do by creating the Android OS.

The Android is based on Java APIs, Java being a popular cross-platform programming language with a large following. Java also at this point, is a product of Oracle and in 2010 submitted a claim that Google compensate it for the portions of the Android OS that uses the API. It demanded the sum of $2.2bn but the court ruled in favor of Google in 2012. However, Oracle reopened the case at an appeal court and won, this time, a portion of the profit on any Android device sold.

Finally, if you were wondering who else takes a cut out of the Android pie, Microsoft is in on that action. When big ‘profit-first’ corporations like Oracle and Microsoft strong-arming Google over a product we (developers) use and love, one begins to wonder if it will still stay an open platform for long.

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