[z3n]

If they could cheat Java 10 years ago, they can cheat anyone today without batting an eyelash. Google, facebook, and apple have so much cash they could buyout anyone or anything that they need thousands of times over. They don’t need to make anything organically anymore.

[piroque]

bump

[Rockingham]

It sounds like the Supreme Court is going to deliver an epic butt-kicking to Google.

[SES1066]

Does anyone at Alphabet, Google's morphed parent entity (2015), remember that, oh so idealistic, motto of their (Google) competitive, non-monopoly days, "Don't be evil"? Yeah, I didn't think so!

[SmokingJoe]

Google is one of the most lawless, most evil outfits on the planet. Amy ruling that helps to bring them down has to be applauded.

[antidisestablishment]

I’m certainly glad to see Google get its comeuppance; but using Microsoft as an example of fair practice is ludicrous at best. I guess the millions of lines of stolen code from the little guys doesn’t deserve the same protection as when you steal from Sun. Thieves and liars, all...

[FLT-bird]

Bust up Big Tech.

Google (Alphabet....ie Google and Youtube) is the very worst of the lot. Bust them up first.

[rigelkentaurus]

Solution: Guilty. Breakup Google, give android to Sun Micro along with all the profits from Android since creation.

[USS Alaska]

A positive Oracle decision is required by law, and it seems that the SCOTUS has enough still living, thinking human beings on the court to provide the correct answer.

The only thing that could change the decision is a packed court, and so you now how google will be cheating for the next coupla weeks.

You tube and google searches will be so slanted that if anything that is Trump positive is searched for, it will end up in the bit bucket.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Something tells me this won’t be the last case the Court will have to decide about people cheating and stealing their way to the top.

[The Free Engineer]

From what I understand google used the public interface to Java and re-implemented the library.

Up until now this has always been legal under copyright law.

This would be a dangerous precedent to adopt. Good for lawyers, bad for developers.

[9YearLurker]

Heard by a 4-4 court? And what did Justices from “the other side” have to say and ask?

[Terry L Smith]

YES!!

[Savage Beast]

What the left hates most about President Trump is this: He is a truth seeker.

If he is re-elected in November with a Republican majority in both houses of Congress, truth will be exposed. This is what leftists fear and dread most.

The ruthless pursuit of truth leads to unexpected discoveries. Truth seekers are prepared to receive and to accept truth, whatever it may be.

The untruthful are not. They hide from truth, especially those who have good reason to fear it.

[Hostage]

Google is going to pay in the billions if not the tens of billions.

Glad to see it happen.

Thanks for posting.

[Honest Nigerian]

What did RBG say from her deathbed about THIS?
Rutabaga’s Ideas Matter don’t ya know?

[zeugma]

The full transcript of the Oral Arguments can be found here

[minnesota_bound]

I would imagine the penalty would be all the gross amount of money google made x 3