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Six-Hour Meeting Friday Fails to End Oracle/Google Lawsuit (businessinsider.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the if-at-first-you-don't-succeed dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Google and Oracle executives met for six hours Friday in an unsuccessful attempt to resolve an ongoing copyright lawsuit. "Because an agreement couldn't be made, the next phase of the case will head to court in May, where a jury will decide if Google had the right to use certain parts of Oracle's programming language, Java, for free or if it owes Oracle damages..." reports Business Insider. "Last month, Google said that its damages expert strongly disagreed that it should owe Oracle upward of $8 billion for using certain parts of Oracle's software in its smartphone operating system, Android."
Friday's court-ordered talk included both Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Oracle CEO Safra Catz, and it marks the second time the two companies have failed to reach an out-of-court settlement, a fact alluded to by the case's judge in newly-released documents. "After an earlier run at settling this case failed, the court observed that some cases just need to be tried," reports the court docket. "This case apparently needs to be tried twice."

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  1. It's time for Google to switch to Rust. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think it's time for Google to seriously consider switching to Rust for Android development. Rust is just the kind of language that's needed for mobile development: it's safe, it's fast, and it's the future. In fact the best thing about Rust is that it's an all-level programming language. You can use it for writing low level OS kernels and device drivers. You can use it for writing mid level servers. You can use it for writing high level apps. You can use it for writing ultra high level distributed software. Rust is the first programming language that provides a bottom-to-top solution. C++ got close but Rust has got it completely covered. The sooner Google switches to Rust the better for everyone, I think.

    1. Re:It's time for Google to switch to Rust. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Naw, Rust is not really on the table for them, they are looking at Swift(cause this is apparently popular according to people OTHER then Apple apparently) and/or Kotlin.

  2. Re:Spin much by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm pretty sure Microsoft is enjoying the whole affair.