@Bruizer
What was "stolen"? You can't "steal" something if no one "owns" it to begin with. You and I know full well that the patents in question are overly broad and defensive in nature and were never envisioned for this kind of action. I'll bet every single one of them could be argued to the SCOTUS and get overturned on obviousness or prior art. Furthermore, there's even the question of whether software patents *should* be valid.
Google didn't "steal" anything from Oracle or Sun. They used knowledge that many who are "skilled in the art" consider to be common and available (even if there is a patent on such knowledge).
If Google copied and pasted copyrighted code without permission then it's a different story. Infringement is a violation of the law and it's wrong. I would like to know what, if anything, that Google supposedly copied. My guess is that Oracle is just being like SCO in this regard.
Oracle's behavior is damaging to pretty much everyone in the software business - even Oracle. Would you want to do business with them? If you do then you belong to an endangered species.
Let's hope Google comes up with a clever response that promotes free and open source software and that punishes thuggish behavior.
-MC
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