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Google has come out swinging in the wake of Oracle's lawsuit against the search giant for their use of Java in Android. Google calls the lawsuit "baseless" and makes it clear that they will be seeing Oracle in court. The suit is indeed aimed at the Dalvik virtual machine that Android uses to compile and run Java code on the phone. Google said in their statement that technology like Dalvik, "goes beyond any one corporation."
Google is framing this issue as a fight for open standards. Judging by the ton of their response, no one is looking to settle this quietly. More than likely, this will drag on for years. It is interesting that Google's open source operating system is being targeted in multiple legal actions. Still, if there's a company with the resources to devote to defending such a thing, it's Google.
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