[Swordmaker]

A U.S. Federal Court jury finds Google didn’t need a license from Oracle for Android’s Java code, defeating Oracle's $9 billion claim. Oracle vows to appeal. — PING!

Pinging ThunderSleeps, dayglored, and Shadow Ace for a legal decision on the Oracle v. Google (Alphabet) infringement mess decision.

Court Rules Android's Use of Java is Fair Use
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[who_would_fardels_bear]

Java: the gift that keeps on giving.

It drove Sun into bankruptcy.

Now Oracle is getting no love from having gobbled up Sun's corpse.

Ha ha!

[fireman15]

Oracle should probably have recruited some of Apple’s attorneys and gone after Samsung instead. Smaller pockets, but those South Korean’s weren’t even able to convince a jury that a rectangle with rounded corners wasn’t an infringement. LOL

[DesertSapper]

Interesting. I did not know “Fair use” meant I could build my own OS (and market associated products) using someone else’s code.

[DesertSapper]

From the Bloomberg article:
Oracle acquired Sun in 2010 and Schmidt was involved in Google’s failed licensing negotiations that spurred the copyright-infringement lawsuit filed that year by the database maker.

If Google was in licensing negotiations with Oracle on using Java in 2010, they definitely thought there was a dollar value to using the code. In hindsight, Oracle should have taken the 2010 offer and not try to fight Google's massive legal bank account and political clout.