Ben Maynard

Of course, anyone who has ever dealt with Google was not surprised by this lack of interest or failure to take responsibility for its actions. Take Google Books for one example—Google could very easily have submitted to a voluntary agreement at the outset, but preferred—preferred—to slug it out in court when they thought they just had a group of authors to roll over with Google’s bottomless litigation budget raised through monopoly profits (or “rents”). - Ben Maynard

Android, currently the fastest-growing and most widely used smartphone operating system. If Oracle wins the suit, the effects on the Android ecosystem could indeed be drastic. - Ben Maynard

Android chief Andy Rubin has since tried to explain that Android is open source, but not community-developed -- in other words, Google controls the source code and releases it whenever it sees fit. - Ben Maynard