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Jury Rules Google Violated Java Copyright, Google Moves For Mistrial

Posted by Soulskill on from the opening-a-big-can-of-worms dept.

eldavojohn writes "Details are thin, but the long-covered Oracle v. Google trial has at least partially been decided in favor of Oracle. The jury says Google violated copyrights with Android when it used Java APIs to design the system. Google moved for a mistrial after hearing the incomplete decision. The patent infringement accusations have yet to be ruled upon."

2 of 475 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Time for the Judges ruling? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Funny

    The real fun begins when Alan Turing's vengeful ghost returns to assert that his invention of the stack renders all implementors of push and pop infringing...

  2. Re:Time for the Judges ruling? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The real fun begins when Alan Turing's vengeful ghost returns to assert that his invention of the stack renders all implementors of push and pop infringing...

    ...only to have its ass kicked by the ghost of Ada Lovelace, who has an even lower ID.