It looks like Internet reports that Google had actually copied Java’s code–owned now by Oracle–inside its Android operating system is incorrect. ZDNet discovered that the sensational article published ...

My ZDNet colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is eager to step up to Google’s defense in the company’s legal battle with Oracle. To that end, he has written “A Google Android and Java history lesson” ...

“The existence of other expressive choices to achieve the same functionality is fatal to Google’s merger claim. Because there are many ways to write the code Google chose to copy, the code does not ...