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Dispute Damages Would Exceed Android Revenues

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pay-in-negative-dollars dept.

CWmike writes "A new document in a year-old patent lawsuit filed by Oracle against Google over Android intellectual property suggests Oracle could be seeking huge damages from Google. The damages owed to Oracle, if granted by federal Judge William Alsup for the US District Court for Northern California, would 'far exceed any money Google has ever earned with Android' and could lead to a rewrite of Android's Dalvik virtual machine, considered integral to Android and used by Android device manufacturers and potentially thousands of Android app developers, wrote one blogger, Florian Mueller, who writes about intellectual property issues involving the software industry."

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  1. Florian is not a blogger, he is a troll by h4rr4r · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Florian is not a blogger, he is a professional troll.

    1. Re:Florian is not a blogger, he is a troll by gnasher719 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      No kidding, when will this idiot disappear.

      When Microsoft stops paying him.

    2. Re:Florian is not a blogger, he is a troll by Colonel+Korn · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Florian is not a blogger, he is a professional troll.

      I'd never heard of him before, but looking at his arguments is like watching Glen Beck. Given a lack of evidence to support his fear-mongering, he puts his fingers in his ears and repeatedly says, "I'm just asking the question: can we really say there's definitely no infringement?" When every specific example he cites is debunked, he returns to his litany and insists that infringement is possible, then chides his opponents for being unable to prove the impossible. Having debated competitively, I detect the belief that aggressively responding to every argument is equivalent to winning.

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    3. Re:Florian is not a blogger, he is a troll by vgerclover · · Score: 3, Insightful

      When will /. stop linking to him?

    4. Re:Florian is not a blogger, he is a troll by UnknowingFool · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The point is if he can't do simple addition, can you count on his analysis? Hey we all make mistakes but he clearly seems to have an agenda proclaiming that Android is doomed. If you read any of the lwn posts, he takes the Glen Beck tactic of "I'm not saying that Android raped and murdered all these patents and copyrights; I'm saying no one has denied it. I find that interesting, don't you?"

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    5. Re:Florian is not a blogger, he is a troll by poetmatt · · Score: 3, Insightful

      You are completely wrong. A single claim will not ruin android, even if it were in east texas. It takes a claim to stick through the trial to do something, surviving the judge accepting the claim in the first place, and summary judgment. We have gotten to none of those scenarios yet. To ruin android is a far far cry. Remember, no injunctions have been granted, and it will be years before this is sorted out. What if 1 claim stuck, 6 years from now after appeal, and the fee was $500K? To see if there is anything at all, this case will have to go through along with it's appeal. Google has a very strong case and a very strong staff of lawyers as well.

      Your comment is completely inaccurate.

    6. Re:Florian is not a blogger, he is a troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Wow. It's funny, having once come here nearly daily for the better part of a decade, I find I haven't been here in many months, and even after just looking over the front page articles and a few comments I was thinking the same things. Then I found your comment, modded up +5 Interesting no less, and I'm really wondering what the hell happened to this place. The best case scenario I can think of is that the editors suck more than ever, but I'm worried that it may also be because no one even submits anything of any higher quality anymore. Either way, I wholeheartedly agree it is past time to move on to other sites more deserving of daily attention.

      Thanks, Slashdot, it was a good long run we had. I think it's just time we part our ways and say goodbye. Let's just try to fondly remember the good times we had together and move on to greener pastures.

      As always,

      AC

    7. Re:Florian is not a blogger, he is a troll by Nick+Ives · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Ars Technica. It lacks the format of /. but, to be honest, this format is the problem.

      If you want high quality tech news where the editors aren't afraid to post in the comments calling out idots for lowering the tone, start reading and posting at Ars.

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      Nick
  2. Re:Sun by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Kind of makes me wonder why they ever used the inferior Java in the first place. Please name 1 respectable application or game written in it.

    Obvious troll aside, it does set a pretty negative picture on Java. If you figure out how to make a successful product based on Java, expect to have Oracle come knocking on your door with a murder of lawyers to try and put a stop to it. Only people that should be making money off Java is Oracle, after all.

  3. Slashdot now: News for consumers, stuff that sells by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So many story summaries now are oversensalized, with many stories that are more like advertisements.
    It seems it's all about page hits and controversy.

    "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" is long gone.
    Too often the *Editors* can't be bothered to even edit or check stories before posting them.