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“...is now free to sue you for billions or trillions”

Do you really mean trillions, or was that a typo...?



What Oracle wanted out of the Android/Java-IP lawsuit was an up-front payment in the billions, plus an ongoing cut of Google's android revenue. If they'd won on copyright, which lasts for decades, that could have accrued into a colossal sum of money over time...




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