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Email In Oracle-Google Case Will Remain Public

Posted by timothy on from the cannot-unring-that-bell dept.

itwbennett writes "When last we left the Oracle/Google patent infringement saga, Oracle had been ordered by Judge William Alsup to lower its claim for damages to $100 million, give or take. Today Judge Alsup denied Google's attempt to get a potentially damaging e-mail redacted. 'What we've actually been asked to do by Larry and Sergey is to investigate what technology alternatives exist to Java for Android and Chrome,' Google engineer Tim Lindholm wrote in the Aug. 2010 e-mail. 'We've been over a hundred of these and think they all suck. We conclude that we need to negotiate a license for Java.'"

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  1. Not incriminating by wintercolby · · Score: 5, Informative

    August 2010 is much later than when Oracle bought Sun and long after Android was initially announced. In fact, all this email was sent just 2 days before Oracle filed their lawsuit.

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    Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. --Aldous Huxley
    1. Re:Not incriminating by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Informative

      ... In fact, all this email was sent just 2 days before Oracle filed their lawsuit.

      Or maybe not sent. from TFA:

      Oracle also implied that Lindholm's e-mail had actually been sent, but in fact it was an incomplete draft, Google added.

      . Probably someone thought "oh shit Oracle have brought Sun", started to suggest that they got a license when someone else pointed out to them that they didn't need to.

  2. Re:Oracle are the good guys here by Gaygirlie · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google actually IS and has been fighting software patents for a good while already and they do indeed have lobbyists. They however cannot do miracles: the whole god damn media industry is pushing for stricter copyright and patents laws and they've got all the politicians in their pockets.

  3. Re:We've been over a hundred of these... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... for all the abuse Microsoft gets, at least you can do stuff like change the program counter in the IDE to re-run a piece of code.

    Don't know whether the Java VM API (JVMTI) would allow setting the PC, but you can use "drop to frame" to start the current method again.