Google Faces Supreme Court Showdown with Oracle in 2020

While Oracle did make this code available for free to app developers, it has always maintained that large corporations that ran competing platforms ought to pay for it.

Google did not pay for it, and the software it developed with the help of Java, Android, now represents over 87 percent of the global smartphone operating system market.

Rachel Bovard of the Internet Accountability Project noted, According to the legal filings, Google initially approached Oracle about licensing Java for Android after trying and failing to write its own code.

As intellectual propetyy and antitrust law professor, Adam Candeub, an expert on big tech censorship noted, noted, the creation of Android was perhaps the key component to maintaining Googles search monopoly, as it made Google the default search engine just as Google was struggling on mobile search.

Google executive Kent Walker, infamous for his leaked post-election rant about Trump-style populism potentially causing a world war, welcomed the Supreme Courts decision to review the case in a statement to the Verge.