Posted on 05/16/2012 5:08:14 PM PDT by DarthFuzball
Google downloaded java class files from Sun/Oracle, then they decompiled the files in order to get hold of the original source. Then they knowingly stole the source code and copied it. Next they compiled it and knowingly released it as their own while it was unlicensed.
That’s what happened. But this is probably minor in the grand scheme of things compared to the other things that Google does. For instance they knowingly promote pornography through their images.google.com image search, and they present that pornography to innocent children.
It was no accident that Google showed a huge disregard for professional ethics in dealing with the Oracle/Java licensing issue. The fact is we all know that Google shows a lack of ethics and common decency ever single day.
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