Larry Page Tells Jury He Doesn't Recall Details of Java Negotations

Google CEO Larry Page informed a jury on Wednesday that he remembers small about Google's makes an attempt to barter a Java license from Sun, during forty minutes of tense questioning in Oracle's lawsuit against Google in excess of Android.

"I do not remember the main points of when we were or were not negotiating with Sun, it appeared to go on for a very long time," Web page instructed the jury at the U.S. District Court in San Francisco.

Webpage also testified that he didn't don't forget asking Google engineer Tim Lindholm to analyze possible alternatives to Java to be used in Android. An electronic mail from Lindholm that concludes Google required to negotiate a license for Java is witnessed being an important piece of proof inside the situation.

Webpage advised the court that he didn't bear in mind receiving the email.

The Google govt was about the stand for day 3 with the trial in Oracle's lawsuit against Google, which accuses it of infringing Oracle's Java patents and copyrights in Google's Android OS. Oracle acquired Java when it acquired Sunshine in 2010.

Google says it created Android using components of Java that don't demand it to own a license and denies any wrongdoing.

Web page appeared unwilling to present immediate solutions to several of the inquiries from David Boies, a well-known trial law firm representing Oracle inside the case.

"It is vital you try to solution most concerns 'yes' or 'no,' Choose William Alsup told Web page at 1 level.

Boies asked Web page if he knew that Sunshine wished to avoid Java becoming fragmented into incompatible versions.

"You understood Sun wanted to stay away from fragmentation?" Boies asked.

"It's challenging for me to take a position ... it wouldn't shock me," Page explained.

"Is it your testimony that you simply would need to speculate to state if Sun wished to avoid fragmentation of Java?" Boise asked.

"There are numerous components of Java," said Page.

The decide informed Page yet again he had to answer sure or no, and Page sooner or later stated he knew that Sunlight wanted to keep away from fragmentation.

Webpage also testified that Android was crucial to Google in 2005, although not "critical." And he acknowledged that Google does not have a policy in place that prohibits its engineers copying other companies' code.

"I'm not informed of any this sort of coverage; I think we do a whole lot to safeguard intellectual home within our organization," he explained.

Beneath questioning from Google's personal lawyer, Page mentioned Google experienced wanted to use Java because it would preserve "a large amount of time and trouble" in the advancement of Android.

"When we have been not able to come to conditions on that organization partnership, we went down our personal path," Page said. "We took the free Java language and carried out it inside a cleanse place," meaning it developed the remaining Java factors with out considering Sun's code.

Oracle stated it plans to get in touch with Webpage back again on the witness stand later within the trial. It would like to issue him about certain other Google paperwork, however the choose ruled Wednesday that people documents hadn't been correctly submitted nevertheless as proof.