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Tech Rivals Come to Google’s Defense in Oracle Supreme Court Fight

By Ashley Gold
· · Source: The Information

Some of Google’s biggest competitors are offering support to the tech giant in its battle with Oracle in a landmark copyright case set to be heard by the Supreme Court this term. IBM, Mozilla and Microsoft all filed briefs in favor of Google on Monday, along with a group of smaller companies including Medium, Cloudera, Creative Commons, Shopify, Etsy, Reddit and Mapbox. The case is about...

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