Google Infringed On Oracle Copyrights, Jury Finds

I would say “case closed”, but we all know how much Google loves the word “open” — they’re asking for a mistrial. 

Seriously though, this sounds like a mixed bag. A loss for Google, but not a full loss. This is probably going to take several more weeks/months to fully play out.

More interesting is the macro picture. This is yet another headache surrounding Android, the “free” and “open” OS which has now been found to be infringing on someone else’s copyrights and which the majority of the big OEMs pay a licensing fee to Microsoft — not Google — to use.