Google buys Motorola

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disolitude said:

DirtyP2002 said:

could u guys clear me up, why google gets sued by MS and Apple?

Google essentially built Android out of various different operating systems, mostly Linix which suprisingly hasn't filed a lawsuit...but there is some Sun Microsystems Java in there, some Microsoft owned file system structure and naming conventions, and some Apple hardware stuff by the looks of things.

Oracle, Apple and Microsoft are finding elements in the android OS which they believe belong to their pattents, and since Google is giving Android for free and making no money on it, they are unable to sue Google directly. They are however able to sue the manufacturers using Android as they are charging money for a product...

By aquiring motorolla, Apple lawsuits should be covered as they tend to sue for functionality and hardware...but I am really uncertain how aquiring motorolla helps with Microsoft and Oracle lawsuits. Microsoft is suing Motorolla as we speak for using Android, despite their boatload of patents as none of them are for the smartphone OS.

I assume you mean Linux? Linux can't sue because firstly Linux isn't made by a single company but rather by a large array of developers all over the world. Everybody can create, modify or update his own Linux distribution. And secondly Linux is open and available for everybody to use.