Java Wars: Google asks US Supreme Court to end Oracle copyright case

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Java Wars: Google asks US Supreme Court to end Oracle copyright case

Wants Larry's billion-dollar resurrected ruling reversed.

Alphabet Inc's Google on Thursday asked the US Supreme Court to reverse a ruling that resurrected a billion-dollar copyright case brought by Oracle Corp that dates to 2010. Google urged the high court to rule its copying of Oracle's Java programming language to create the Android operating ...

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