A new report claims that Microsoft has decided to take Oracle's side in the company's lawsuit against Google over Google's use of Java in the Android operating system



From Neowin:

Microsoft told U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that it would file a "friend of the court brief" and that it would side with Oracle in its current lawsuit against Google. Oracle legal battle with Google concerns the Java programming language, which Oracle claims Google is using in its Android OS without Oracle's permission.

So far, the courts have ruled in Google's favor, with a judge deciding in 2012 that Oracle could not claim the copyrights to much of the Java language; Oracle is now appealing that decision.

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