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		kingkilr on June 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oracle Sues Lodsys For others who are slow: He means Larry Ellison, not Larry Page.

jrockway on June 5, 2012 [–]

If Apple wanted to buy Sun's patents to sue Google, why didn't Apple just do it themselves? Jobs already declared "thermonuclear war" on Android, after all.

regularfry on June 5, 2012 | [–]

Oracle wanted Java more than Apple wanted Sun's patents, at a guess, and Java+Patents in a friendly Oracle's hands doesn't do Apple any harm.

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