Oracle vs. Google Android, Java lawsuit settlement talks will go no-where

[ Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]

You can order CEOs to mediation, but you can't make them agree. U.S. District Judge William Alsup may have gotten Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Google CEO Larry Page into a courtroom to try to get them to settle Oracle's lawsuit over Android and its alleged infringement on Java, but they're not going to come to an agreement.

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