Google and Oracle have been going head to head fro quite some time now. The two tech companies had their differences since Oracle first filed a $6 billion law suit against Google for stealing its code, but the software company lost that legal battle. However, it seems that Oracle has not been able to rise above this case, as earlier this month the CEO of the company Larry Ellison once again claimed that both CEO Larry Page and Google are “absolutely evil” as they have used Oracle’s “stuff” by using Java in its popular Android platform.
After these new comments from the CEO of Oracle it seems that the war of words is on the verge, as finally the executive chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt has decided to answer to the claims of Ellison. In his response, Schmidt said that Ellison’s claims are “simply untrue” and it has been already proved in the U.S. District Court of Law. The executive chairman made the response through a post over Google+ page. Below is the original post from Schmidt, in which he has described the whole matter in detail:
“We typically try to avoid getting dragged into public battles with other companies. But I’ve gotten a lot of questions about Larry Ellison’s claims that Google “took [Oracle’s] stuff”. It’s simply untrue — and that’s not just my opinion, but the judgment of a U.S. District Court.
Here are the facts. In 2012, after Oracle sued Google for patent and copyright infringement in a case involving Java and Android, a jury found that we had not infringed Oracle’s patents. And the Court ruled that copyright could not be used to block others from using the “structure, sequence and organization” of APIs, the language that allows different computer programs and systems to talk to each other. The ruling protects a principle vital to innovation: you cannot copyright an idea, like a method of operation. For example, no one can copyright the idea of adding two numbers together.
This case goes to the heart of the current and much-needed debate about patent reform. Patents were designed to encourage invention, not stop the development of new ideas and technologies.
And getting that right is what really matters.”
In contrast to Ellison, Schmidt responded quite politely, as the CEO of Google did not use words like evil in his post. In fact he had humbly mentioned the whole scenario, which makes lot of sense, but let’s see what Ellison will say in response this statement from Schmidt.
Source: 9to5Google, Google+
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