The Oracle v. Google trial continued on day five with more detailed dissection of Java and APIs and the difference, or similarities, between Android and Java. Google's lawyers framed their questions ...

Google's Android software infringes on several patents related to Java, which Oracle acquired from Sun earlier this year, Oracle says in suit filed Thursday. Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding ...

API是否可以自由使用是本案的焦点。如果Google败诉的话，势必会改变今后软件开发的游戏规则，对如何利用版权法保护软件也将产生深远影响。 树大招风。这句话用到Google现已占统治地位的移动操作系统Android身上再合适不过了。旷日持久的Oracle诉Google在Android中 ...

Google and Sun Microsystems’ discussions to co-develop Android ultimately broke down because of disagreements over control of the platform, Google wrote in a trial brief late last week related to its ...

Monday’s decision in Google v. Oracle reminds us that occasionally the Supreme Court can take a big case and actually decide it! So many of the intellectual-property cases that reach the justices ...

Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle’s Java Development Kit (JDK). The news first ...

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Remember how Larry Ellison went on national television and accused Google of copying Oracle's software? Ellison thinks Android copies a programming language owned by Oracle called Java. Google is ...

Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large task ...

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