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“The economics of the cloud have led, he said, ‘to a level of vertical integration never seen before.’” The WSJ recounting what Google CIO Ben Fried told them in an interview, 5-11-12

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Google Android chief Andy Rubin said in the Oracle vs. Google IP trial that Google wanted Sun to "throw away their standard license, because it isn't what we're asking for, and they needed to develop a new license that was specifically what we're asking for." Per CNET, 5-3-12

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"Just because Sun didn't have patent suits in our genetic code doesn't mean we didn't feel wronged. While I have differences with Oracle, in this case they are in the right. Google totally slimed Sun. We were all really disturbed, even Jonathan: he just decided to put on a happy face and tried to turn lemons into lemonade." James Gosling, Father of JAVA code, about the Oracle vs. Google copyright trial; in CNET 5-1-10

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"I don't see how you can open Java without Sun, since they own the brand and IP [intellectual property]." Said Andy Rubin in an email discussed at the Oracle vs. Google copyright trial per Business Insider, 4-24-12

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"You've got to say 'yes,' 'no' or 'I don't know,' " [Federal District Judge] Alsup scolded [Google CEO Larry] Page at one point. "You must do that." In response to Mr. Pages testimony under oath in the Oracle vs. Google infringement trial, 4-19-12; per the Mercury News

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Google CEO Larry “Page answered "I don't recall" to so many of Boies' questions that business news channel CNBC summed up his testimony with the headline "Blank Page?"” LA Times coverage of Google CEO Larry Page’s testimony under oath in the Oracle vs. Google infringement trial; 4-9-12

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"I think we do a lot to respect IP," or intellectual property said Google CEO Larry Page under oath “when Oracle Attorney Boies asked Page if Google has a policy against copying other companies' software; per the Mercury News; 4-19-12

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"I think we did nothing wrong." Google CEO Larry Page, testifying under oath in Federal Court concerning whether Google infringed Oracle’s patents and copyright in the Oracle vs. Google case, 4-17-12 per WSJ

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“A related danger is that one social-networking site--or one search engine or one browser--gets so big that it becomes a monopoly, which tends to limit innovation. As has been the case since the Web began, continued grassroots innovation may be the best check and balance against any one company or government that tries to undermine universality.” Said Tim Berners Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web.; 12-10 Scientific American

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“If the definition of “open” is “that which can be indexed and monetized by Google,” maybe we need a new word.” Liz Gannes, All Things Digital; 4-16

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