Google called the lawsuit Oracle unfounded

Yesterday, news appeared on Habré that Oracle sued Google as a result of "flagrant violations of intellectual property rights." Let me remind you that Oracle believes that “When developing Android, Google consciously, directly and repeatedly violated some aspects of Oracle’s intellectual property rights related to Java. This lawsuit is aimed at eliminating violations. " So, today Google has responded to this lawsuit, saying that it considers it unfounded.

In addition, Google is going to defend open source software, whose free component is, according to the company, under threat from Oracle. The cornerstone of Oracle’s lawsuit is the Dalvik Virtual Machine, a virtual machine developed by Dan Bornstein that is now part of the Android OS.

Almost all the programs for this virtual machine are written in Java, which Oracle does not like, which bought Sun Microsystems last year, coupled with Java technology.

Google, in turn, believes that Java is no longer owned by any of the corporations, Java community belongs to the whole world. Here is the text of the company's official statement: “We are disappointed that Oracle has chosen Google and the entire open Java community as the target of its lawsuit. The Java community is no longer owned by any corporation, and every day works to make the Web even better. We will protect the standards of open source software, and work further in the chosen direction to improve the Android platform. "

According to some experts, Oracle’s lawsuit against Google is complicated by the real problem of the “openness” of Android OS - after all, the corporation developing this mobile operating system does not sell it. Yes, some profit is made, but these incomes are not a direct result of the spread of this mobile platform. Now, if the Android operating system was sold, then another thing - immediately it would be possible to get a good compensation for losses due to copyright infringement.

But nevertheless, Oracle lawyers also left the student’s bench yesterday, I think if the lawsuit is filed, then the company firmly expects, if not judicial damages, then a settlement agreement, which may bring Oracle some of the money Google receives. But this, as they say, is written with a pitchfork on water. It remains only to monitor the development of events.

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