Oracle Rejects Argument That Before Suing Google, It Got Rich By Copying IBM’s SQL

Ars Technica’s senior tech reporter took a long long at Google’s reimplementation of Java in Android — and the lawsuit filed against it by Oracle in 2010. And he discovers “a possible downside” to Oracle’s stance on API copyrights.
If anyone should understand the importance of such copying, it’s Oracle. After all, Oracle got its start in the 1970s selling a…