Google Used Android to “Destroy” the Market for Java
Google is being accused by Oracle for copying code from
Java in building Android platform. With the enormous growth of
mobile market and expansion of Android from mobile phones to smart
TV, wearable etc., Oracle’s Java business has been seriously harmed.
oogle is copying code, sounds weird,
right? All of us know Android is build
on top of Java platform though it uses
different VM, a trimmed down version of JVM.
Also, Java which is now under Oracle, has put up
case against Google for copying it code. Oracle
has expanded the scope of its ongoing copyright
battle against Android and accused Google of
“destroying” the market for Java.
In San Francisco district court, late last month,
Oracle made a request to broaden its case
against Android after filing a supplemental
complaint that encompasses the six new Android
versions that have come out since Oracle
originally filed its case back in 2010:
Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich,
Jelly Bean, Kit Kat, and Lollipop.
Oracle charged Goolge saying:
Since Google has expanded beyond smartphones
over the years to include wearable devices, TVs,
cars and various household appliances. Oracle is
concerned about mobile platform dramatic
adaptation as well, it said, thereby bolstering
Google’s core source of revenue and allowing the
search giant to reap enormous profits from both
its direct and indirect exploitation of the
infringing code .
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