And if a lawyer did break the law by doing it, I say she belongs on the same high pedestal people put Snowden on.
Would you also support this if someone posted the routing information at the bottom of your personal checks? I mean, it's an "open secret" that's on every check. So no harm can come from the world at large knowing it.... right?
If you need an IBAN, I can give you that in a few minutes.
It's also noteworthy that this court case first revealed to the public the Android MADA agreement, a secret contract which has been at the center of a large number of antitrust suits around the globe. Had it not been revealed, it's unlikely many government entities would've started to look into it.
Have anything besides anecdotal evidence of that? Paying a company to use your search isn't anti-competitive. Google has competitors that can make the same (or better) offers. Google didn't prevent that behavior (in the way Microsoft did with Windows) because they can't... there are already alternatives.
Google is a monopoly, but it's not anti-competitive without actual evidence. And your personal opinion doesn't qualify.
People preferring it and Apple or Mozilla asking Google to pay them to include the search bar are not exclusive.
If consumers prefer Google, and Apple couldn't make enough money with their own search engine to compensate for the lost users, it would make sense for Apple to pay Google for the right to use their search bar. Sure, Google could theoretically make money by giving it to them for free, or even by paying them to include it (see Mozilla), but why not get paid twice?
> and that Google doesn't make money on Android
I don't think anyone seriously believes that Android doesn't make money. Why else would Google put so much money into it in the first place?
There is a difference between making money from something and making money as a result of it.
Imagine Android was made by Mozilla. Then Oracle would have to be litigating against Mozilla and Mozilla's profits would be zero dollars because Android is free.
Meanwhile Google would still be making billions of dollars "from" Android in the same way they make billions of dollars "from" iOS.
Android is better for them because Apple controls iOS and can use that control to extract concessions or money from Google. So you would be entirely unsurprised if you learned that Google had cut Mozilla a big donation check. But that doesn't mean Google should owe Oracle money -- if there was no Android then more of Google's customers would have iOS (or something else) instead, and possibly more of Google's revenue would be going go Apple, but still none of it would have gone to Oracle.
More likely they would have just not used the API, as Apple has done this whole time.
It's more like what happens if someone steals a bike and while riding around on it sees a billboard which leads to profit for the advertiser. Are you saying the advertiser now owes the bike owner something?
Google has long held that Android is something like a charity project, to "ensure an open future for mobile" or something like that. You can still see signs of it in the terms of the "Open Handset Alliance", which is actually the group of manufacturers Google forbids from using open source Android, ironically. It's also commonly the defense for why Google isn't a monopoly here: It "gives Android away for free". In reality, Google collects billions in profit, and leaves all of the software patching and support burdens on manufacturers, who can barely turn a profit and are held to Google's increasingly controlling mandates over how Android must be distributed. (I'm sure many OEMs after this case are curious why they're getting such a raw deal on Android, which is another reason it's unsurprising Google is so angry at Oracle.)
As for your search engine theory, well, that's also incorrect. The default search engine on Windows is bing - in fact it's baked into the OS and cannot even be turned off. The default search engine on their browser is also bing. So it would seem people are going out of their way to either download Chrome and use Google as their default search engine or modify the default search engine in Windows to use Google.