NASA scientists today announced they are releasing free software that will find ‘bugs,’ or defects, in Java computer code. The new software, Java Pathfinder, is classified as ‘open source software.’ ...

Supreme Court: Google's Reuse of Oracle's Java Computer Code Is Fair Use Software developers are breathing a sigh of relief. If the court had sided with Oracle, then the ruling may have opened the ...

Google and Oracle have been jousting in court for a decade over the use of the Java programming language in Google’s Android operating system. Today the Supreme Court, in a 6-2 vote, ruled that Google ...

The Java APIs, according to Google, are purely functional because the APIs tell Android how to interact with Java code. Google argued that, if APIs were copyrightable, developers would be forced to ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - U.S. District Judge William Alsup slammed Oracle's lawyer for trying to keep evidence secret in an ongoing battle over Java computer code contained in the highly popular Android ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Reports of Java’s death have been greatly exaggerated — said, well, pretty much every Java engineer that there is ...

(Reuters) - In a brief filed Friday at the U.S. Supreme Court, the Justice Department urged the justices to deny Google's petition for review of a pair of rulings that put the company on the hook for ...

The Supreme Court on Monday sided with Google over Oracle in a major copyright battle, ruling that Google’s copying of a portion of the Java SE computer program is protected as “fair use.” The ruling ...

FARGO – It was 3 p.m. Wednesday and nearly the end of the academic day at Davies High School. But that wasn't stopping Ullrich Reichenbach's students from turning big rocks into little rocks. Or, more ...

Who are the best Java programmers in the world? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by ...