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Google claims Microsoft showed an outsider its source code
ADVERTISING BROKER Google has told a US International Trade Commission (ITC) administrative judge that Microsoft revealed "highly confidential source code" to one of Microsoft's "experts".
Microsoft is in a bitter battle against Motorola over the use of Google's Android operating system. While Google hasn't been named in that lawsuit, by going after Motorola, Microsoft is in effect really battling Google. So it is no surprise that soon after Microsoft went to the ITC, Motorola fired back, mostly likely with Google's blessing.
Now Google has told an ITC administrative judge that Microsoft's 'expert', Robert Stevenson, was shown confidential source code without disclosing him to Google. Google claims that this action broke the terms of a confidentiality agreement signed between the two firms saying that each other must disclose "any consultant or expert seeking access to Google confidential business information or highly confidential source code before allowing a consultant or expert to review such information so that Google has an opportunity to object prior to disclosure".
Google has asked the ITC to disqualify Stevenson from testifying at the evidentiary hearing. The firm also wants Microsoft to provide, under oath, a declaration that it has not otherwise violated the terms of the confidentiality agreement between the two firms.
Microsoft has been trying to get device manufacturers to pay it a license fee for every Android device it ships. Its biggest customer so far is HTC, however if Motorola loses its case, it could give Microsoft the win it needs to convince others handset makers to pay up rather than face costly litigation. µ
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Suggest you do some research on the different open source licenses and which ones actually Android uses.. For example ALL and MUST don't go together
There is also a lot of proprietary code in Android which Google has every right to legally to withhold
Look. Right, wrong, left or center. MS as well as Apple are doing their BEST thru litigation to STOP the Android MOVEMENT. MS in doing this,is trying to make it's screwed up Winfoney op sys that has a WHOPPING 1-3% TOPS market penetration,(BUT, hold on, is due for an UPGRADE WHOA,& WOOPIE SOON), look more viable.
This charade has nothing to do with anything else. The Google boys are more Right, than the MS gang. BUT..Remember.. In courts, being RIGHT insures NO victory. Google, remember... ASSUME MS WILL DO ANYTHING TO WIN. ASSUME YOUR OPPONENT IS RUTHLESS. GATHER OTHERS THUS THREATENED, and form A FORMIDABLE defense.THE EU, and the HAGUE are more switched on. MS got their noses bloodied with their shenanigans. Recall how MS in their infancy out-flanked IBM... Who "DIDN'T GET IT" EITHER and LOST BILLIONS!! THIS IS the fight for your BUSINESS LIVES. PART OF YOUR PROFITS owned by, or, paid to MS who has NOTHING.. AT ALL.. to do with ANDROID, OR LINUX. Talk about TWISTED IRONY!! BET, MS is LAUGHING now!
AS FOR APPLE LOOK HERE.. PLEASE!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK7TQVFSA1Y
HE SAYS"PICASSO SAYS GOOD ARTISTS COPY, GREAT ARTISTS STEAL" THEN he IMMEDIATELY talks about how he saw what XEROX PARC did.And then how how CAN'T SOME COURT SEE THE DUPLICITOUS STANDARD Apple lives by. Apple COPIED the Xerox STAR's IP. THEN ( sorry but THIS takes NERVE) SUED MS for COPYING WHAT Apple COPIED from XEROX!!!! ( XeroX sued Apple, lost due to Satute of Limitations ) NOW THEY SUE FOR WHAT THEY ORIGINALLY STOLE ( JOBS ADMISSION) FROM XRX ( CHECK OUT THIS.He says XeroX could have OWNED the COMPUTER INDUSTRY IF THEY
JUST KNEW. SO THAT'S WHAT JOBS IS TRYING TO DO. Eventually an end run LIKE MS.ND GET PAID by the COMPETITION. FREE MONEY!!! Forget McDonald's franchise
It's Google that doesn't understand open source. You can't have open source proprietary code that can be shown. According to ALL the open source licenses, you MUST make all the code available to anyone.
What is with the Google bias I see everywhere?
Maybe Google isn't as open as they claim.
Oh, and I wish a plague on all of them. All need to be broken up before they do any more damage to our privacy.