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Oracle Reportedly Asking Android Makers for Royalties

Rumor has it that Oracle is soliciting Java royalties from Android device makers in case it wins its Android suit
By Maureen O'Gara
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July 18, 2011 07:00 AM EDT
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Rumor has it that Oracle is soliciting Java royalties from Android device makers in case it wins its Android suit against Google and the price goes up.

Deutsche Bank analyst Jonathan Goldberg says he heard from "various handset makers" that Oracle wants $15-$20 a device for Dalvik. He hasn't heard of anybody signing up yet and the range sounds awfully like a first negotiating move.

Microsoft, meanwhile, according to South Korea's Maeil Business Newspaper, is supposedly trying to get $15 per Android device from Samsung, which would be triple the $5-a-device Microsoft is believed to be getting from HTC.

It's widely speculated that if Samsung falls, so will the rest of the market and Google will be obliged to stop calling Android a free operating system. Samsung can also do some horse trading over the Windows Phone it carries.

Published July 18, 2011 – Reads 4,049
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