The latest news from the Oracle vs Google lawsuit

[Fabrizio Giudici]

According to many sources (e.g.
http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2012/03/22/oracle-wont-fortune-google-trial.htm)
the current estimate of the money that Oracle could get from the lawsuit
is in the order of $100 M, one magnitudo less than the figure we were
discussing about at the beginning of the story.

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[Robert Casto]

I would think that Google would gladly pay that to be done with the problem. They will fight of course to eliminate it, but that is certainly much better than $1B. And it will get rid of some uncertainty around the Android platform. I would guess many more would rally around it.

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[Simon Ochsenreither]

If I had to quantify the damage to the Java ecosystem this whole drama around Google, Apache and Android caused, my number would be certainly a lot higher than $100M.

I really wonder if Oracle thinks it was worth the trouble, considering that they more or less lost almost all the patents they deemed as the most convincing ones and burned 130 patent claims which they cannot assert against Google/Android anymore.

[Ricky Clarkson]

I don't think your average 'working programmer' knows or cares.
Apache is just a web server and a source of weird libraries that
duplicate each other (how many WSDL2Java implementations are really
needed guys)? There are new programmers learning Java just because it
exists on Android, and they don't care that it's not really Java, if
they know it.

It'll take more than Google getting fined $100M to make a dent in
Java, but don't fret, if anyone can do it Oracle will find a way.

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