[HIB]Oracle isn't completely wrong to sue Google over Android

So Oracle wants a piece of Google's action and late Thursday filed a patent -infringement lawsuit against Google over Android's use of Java. One thing is clear. There are no victims here. The crux of the issue is that when Google created Android, it wanted a way to use pieces of Java Micro Edition without paying royalties to Sun. Whether Google's Android engineers did so legally or not is for the lawyers. I'm more concerned over if this suit could fuel Oracle's desire to shake down other Java users now that it owns a massive collection of Java-related patents. How likely is that? We're talking about Oracle here. This is a company run by a man, Larry Ellison, who nurtures his and his company's bad-guy image. Indeed, just last week Ellison was so upset that HP fired its own bad-boy CEO, Mark Hurd, that Ellison wrote a letter to the New York Times defending Hurd.

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