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05-17-2016, 01:20 PM
http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/L_LKm5Pjs4BObqLK4CY5Jg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9ODY7cT03NTt3PT EzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2016-05-17T171544Z_1_LYNXNPEC4G19Z_RTROPTP_2_ORACLE-ALPHABET-TRIAL.JPG (http://news.yahoo.com/oracle-co-ceo-says-google-caused-oracle-revenue-171544245--finance.html)By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Longtime customers dramatically reduced the amount of licensing revenue they paid to use Oracle products after Google stole its copyrighted software to enter the smartphone market, Oracle's co-chief executive Safra Catz told jurors on Tuesday. In a trial at San Francisco federal court, Oracle Corp has claimed Google's Android smartphone operating system violated its copyright on parts of Java, a development platform. Alphabet Inc's Google unit said it should be able to use Java without paying a fee under the fair-use provision of copyright law.



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