Oracle and Google are back to the courts. In 2010 Oracle had sued Google for the first time claiming that the company would have used without authorization 37 Java APIs in the development of mobile operating system Android . The process ended in favor of Google, went to another instance and ended up in the Supreme Court, which refused to hear the case. Now, the new Oracle process can render the company up to $ 9 billion, and is back to where it all began: in a District US Court
This time the dispute between the companies is the codes. used by Google in the development of the Android system fit the “fair use” or fair use. Oracle based the case on four legal action against the Mountain View company, and their lawyers and witnesses also work for the company to exit the case being considered as a defender of the Software free and open source .
Is an image a little difficult to sustain the reputation already shaken the company gained during the development of the case. A long list of experts is already against the decision of Oracle, claiming that the company’s position may cause more harm than good to the community open source .
Oracle CEO Safra Catz, testified this week in the case, and insisted that it was Google and not Oracle to “shut your software within a walled garden.”
lawyers Google stated that it was precisely the open source policy of Java APIs that led to the Android developer team to give preference to the platform. Still, Catz insisted that the company’s philosophy is to protect the language “intruders like Google,” which in the Oracle vision “distorted the company’s policies with incompatible versions of Android.”
Catz also said in his testimony that the use of APIs in Android was discussed internally soon after the acquisition of Java in 2009, previously owned by Sun Microsystems. Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, had said the Oracle at the time that his company was in talks with Google for the purchase of Java usage licensing.
After finalizing the acquisition of Sun, Catz said it was too late to reverse the effect of the Android open use policy of Java. The Oracle CEO also stated that today the entire Java developer community is divided, as some have migrated to Android development platform, which according to the executive “limits the universality of Java.” Catz added: “.. They could schedule a time to run anywhere When the software is written for Android, you can not run on anything other than Android”
Criticism of Google’s mobile system It sounds a little strange, since Android is free and the platform is open, having no development restriction or application. Google’s lawyers countered criticism of the CEO, suggesting that maybe Oracle has not understood the open nature of Java. Its executives could be unprepared to manage the open source or platform then had other intentions to restrict the use of Java on other projects.
Catz was also questioned about Oracle’s plans to develop a smartphone, a project that it was soon considered after the purchase of Sun, but later was abandoned. The defense also suggested that the judicial process may have been Oracle’s failure in fruit can develop its own smartphone. At a conference for Java developers, co-founder and CEO of Oracle, Larry Ellison, even said: “I think we will see many, many Java devices, some coming to our friends at Google. “
the case is still ongoing and new evidence are scheduled for the course this week. Final claims are already expected for the beginning of the next
Via:. Tech Crunch
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