Google to Pay 1 Billion USD to ORACLE

Google loses copyright battle on Java and Android, as per the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Google violated copyright laws when it used Oracle’s open-source Java software to build the Android platform in 2009. The judgement has come after eight trying years, Google is now on the losing end of a legal battle with Oracle, who has accused the former of stealing proprietary.

Absolutely, there is no doubt on Programming languages like Python, C, Java and C++ are used to power the technology we use every day. If you see Java, it can run on many devices and If you have an Android phone, all of your apps are running Java. Big data technologies are using Java as their language of choice because of its excellent capabilities of compiling and organizing data.

Now a question comes who owns the data, in fact the data belongs to the user’s. Google and Facebook dominate the harvesting of user data. The theory behind this penalty to Google is ,before making the Android platform ready Google's mistake of not taking approval from Sun Microsystems (a company of Oracle) which is compatible with Java apps . The case has run for 8 years long lawsuit in a Washington-based appeals court has ruled against Google for unlawfully using APIs from Oracle's Java language at the time of developing Android. It is to be noted that Android has generated more than 42 billion USD in advertising revenue since its inception....Read More