WASHINGTON--Microsoft went on the offensive Friday in the antitrust case brought against it by Sun Microsystems, accusing its bitter rival of violating California law through "unfair competition." In ...

Oracle's nearly eight-year legal battle with Google just won't end. Tuesday a federal appeals court ruled that Google violated Oracle's copyrights when it built a custom version of the Java platform ...

In early 2000, JavaWorld published a two-part series I wrote entitled “The Business Case for Java: A Primer for Geeks,” in which I listed the then distinguishing characteristics of both the ...

More than a decade ago, Google re-implemented the Java programming language as part of its new Android mobile operating system. Oracle, the owner of Java, then sued Google for copyright infringement ...

The legal war between Oracle and Google has been rather muted for the last several months, but there could be a major new twist in the case. Reuters has reported that legal representatives for ...

Lawyers for Oracle and Google gave the judge overseeing their Java patent dispute a tutorial on Wednesday that underscored the complexity of the case between the two companies. Judge William Alsup of ...

IBM, Microsoft and other tech companies have filed court documents in support of Google ahead of the Supreme Court of the US hearing over whether copyright applies to software application programming ...

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011. Oracle ...

Microsoft Corp. must include an arch rival's software when it distributes its dominant Windows operating system for personal computers, a federal judge ruled yesterday, dealing a surprising blow to ...

Many Java applications started from the command line take arguments to control their behavior. These arguments are available in the string array argument passed into the application’s static main() ...