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Microsoft had licensed Java code under a trade agreement and was found to have violated the terms of that trade agreement. Google had not licensed Java code, a
by slurry 14y ago
Microsoft had licensed Java code under a trade agreement and was found to have violated the terms of that trade agreement.
Google had not licensed Java code, and was sued under patent law. Totally different kind of case.
- caf 14y agoOracle made both patent and copyright claims against Google. The patent claims were pretty bog-standard, but the copyright claim (the loss of which is what Oracle is appealing) was quite... novel.