Litigious loser and should-have-seen-this-coming database Java giant, Oracle, has been ordered to cough up cash to help Google’s legal costs following the failure of its copyright infringement case against our plucky Android OS hero.
After the colossal collapse of its case in June in which it accused the Big G of unfairly copying its Java tech and attempted to extract US 2.6 billion in damages, Judge William Alsup ruled on Tuesday that Oracle should not only just shut up, but should now also stump up some US $1.3 million to help settle part of Google’s bill.
Having initially claimed that Google was guilty of 132 violations when the lawsuit began in California back in April, Judge Alsup eventually rejected the majority of Oracle’s legal points, concluding that Android had only infringed a few lines of code and, therefore, awarded Oracle a whopping no-dollars in compensation.
Sadly, Judge Alsup also dismissed a cheeky chancer from Google to claim back nearly $3 million in discovery fees owed to global business advisory firm FTI Consulting, but you can’t win them all; can you, Oracle?
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