Now, a bombshell piece of evidence has just been delivered in the company's $2.6B USD court battle with Oracle Corp. (ORCL), which threatens to be equally damaging to the rival software makers' intellectual property infringement claims.
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Now a lost internet treasure has surfaced that promises to cast those emails in a whole new light. Legal site Groklaw has unearthed a Sun Microsystems blog dating back to 2007 that offers an explosive revelation -- Sun appears to have verbally endorsed Google's use of mobile Java in Android.
In the blog former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz writes:
I just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of others from Sun in offering my heartfelt congratulations to Google on the announcement of their new Java/Linux platform, Android. Congratulations!
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Today is an incredible day for the open source community, and a massive endorsement of two of the industry's most prolific free software communities, Java and Linux.
That warm, glowing message stands in sharp contrast to Oracle's claims that Sun forbid Google from using the Apache distribution of Java, which formally hadn't passed the testing (and fees) required to gain a full license to Java's intellectual property.
Coincidentally, Oracle appears to have conveniently deleted the blog from Sun's web servers. But unfortunately for Oracle, it lived on in web history caches.
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