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Intellectual Property

Apr. 21, 2012

Google's engineer talks about infamous email in Java suit

The Google engineer who wrote the much-discussed August 2010 email recommending the company get a license for Oracle Corp.'s Java programming language denied in testimony on Thursday that he thought the company needed a license at all.


By Craig Anderson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - The Google Inc. engineer who wrote the much-discussed August 2010 email recommending the company get a license for Oracle Corp.'s Java programming language denied in testimony on Thursday that he thought the company needed a license.


Tim Lindholm made his long-awaited appearance in Oracle's copyright and patent infringement trial against Google, and his testimony raised as ma...

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