Possibly even more telling:
Ellison also said he spoke with
Page and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt in 2010 about a proposal for Google to use
some of Oracle's Java components in Android. Shortly after Google balked
at the proposal, Oracle filed its lawsuit.
[Emphasis added]
After failing on their own JavaTM[(C)sic] phone, they tried to get in
on the Android phone by "offering" some of JavaTM[(C)sic] to Google
to include. What was the reason for this?
- They wanted a piece of the
mobile phone market?
- They could get licensing income from all
makers?
It's the timing of the suit that's interesting. Clearly
Google felt the JavaTM[(C)sic] additions were unnecessary (neither
technically nor possibly from a phone manufacturer licensing point of view), and
so it looks [to me] like the typical "Waaaaaaaa, you won't play so I'm getting
my gang on you" bully reaction to being told to politely go away.
I
don't know the details of the proposal, but I could speculate that the proposal
was something like "We believe Android is infringing our IP; licence this
JavaTM[(C)sic] technology for [each] Android [handset] and we'll
forget about the previous infringement." Google however, may believe (in the
same way) that Android doesn't infringe their IP and so tells them no. So,
Oracle then file with lots of Patent infringements, but when told to chose the
best ones, they are mostly shown to actually be Imaginary Property (when
Google gives the USPTO some proper reading glasses); which means that Oracle is
faced with having to try another tack which could actually leave them standing
knee deep in country pancakes if it succeeds.
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