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Thanks for those links. So from your perspective what matters more - the patent dispute on the virtual machine that all of Android runs on, or a copyright issue on 40-some code files?

I'm not even sure how core those files are to running Android - it looks like they could easily be replaced by Google with new code.

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Actually, each act of copyright infringement can constitute 20k in statutory damages. Depending on the use of the directly copied documents, each install of android could be an act of infringement (I'm not sure of to what the documents pertain, so this may be completely off). With 300+k activations a day, assuming all documents pertain (which may be a large assumption), that adds up to $240,000,000,000 a day. That's a lot of money.

But these files don't run on devices and aren't even publicly available.

Virtual machine dispute matters more for survivability of Android, that goes without saying.

However, to me, copyright infringement matters a lot more... If someone is getting free code then at least they could respect the LICENSE.

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