I never said I disliked oracle, I don't have any opinion of them since I don't use any of their products. However, I am implying that they don't have or depend

I never said I disliked oracle, I don't have any opinion of them since I don't use any of their products. However, I am implying that they don't have or depend on the same public reputation that google does. Google depends on its reputation to hire the best talent and anything that will make them look like the bad guys will turn away a lot of people good enough to be choosing which top company to work for. About suing for money: The accumulation of patent in large companies is necessary because if they don't patent everything, someone else will and they'll be in trouble. But suing another big corporation "just to protect the patent" is mutually assured destruction because the company being sued has probably patented a lot of petty little things that the company suing is using and can counter sue. Unless there's a lot to gain, they don't because the only people that will get anything out of it is their patent lawyers. Oracle does have a case against google, but saying that they're doing it just to protect their intellectual property is a bit naive.