Congratulations, Oracle! Not only have you completely failed to eradicate that information from the internet, but you've just made arguments to estoppel 10x more effective.
Not as interesting as this smoking gun from Andy Rubin.<p>This is pretty damning evidence of willful infringement on the part of Google.<p>One of the most interesting passages in today's order quotes from an October 2005 email by Google's Android boss Andy Rubin back in 2005:<p>"If Sun doesn't want to work with us, we have two options: 1) Abandon our work and adopt MSFT CLR VM and C# language - or - 2) Do Java anyway and defend our decision, perhaps making enemies along the way"<p>If a jury sees that statement (and if there is a trial, then the jury will see it for sure), Google has a very serious problem. And "very serious" may be an understatement. Moreover, a statement like that showing up in publicly accessible court documents now may cause significant concern among many of Google's Android partners (including, but not limited to, device makers).<p><a href="http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/07/judge-orders-overhaul-of-oracles.html" rel="nofollow">http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/07/judge-orders-overhau...</a>
At one point in Android's development, Google was using Sun Java, and it is not really embarrassing to see the CEO of Sun congratulating google on becoming a customer. For whatever reasons, google later switched to their own VM, etc.<p>It seems that people who think this is embarrassing to Oracle think that Schwartz is talking about google's VM rather than the Sun one in this blog post.<p>I think Oracle has been eradicating all signs of Previous Management of Sun from the internet. Not because of the litigation with google but because Sun's management was kinda embarrassing-- at least from the perspective of Oracle.<p>This post isn't actually damning because it reinforces the fact that Google was a Sun customer, and thus had access to Sun IP, prior to doing their own thing.