Google Gets Mixed Reception in Supreme Court Clash With Oracle
- Android creator seeks to avoid billions of dollars in damages
- Copyright case evokes analogies to safe-cracking, restaurants
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Alphabet Inc.’s Google got a mixed reception at the U.S. Supreme Court as it sought to overturn a ruling that could force the company to pay billions of dollars for improperly using Oracle Corp.’s copyrighted code in the Android operating system.
Holding a low-tech telephone session in one of the biggest software fights in American history, the justices on Wednesday questioned Google’s contention that it had no way to replicate the code without forcing millions of software developers to learn a new programming language.