3. What does Oracle want?

Oracle apparently could have earned a huge sum of money by selling the codes, libraries and relevant documentations of the API to Google. "If people could copy our software and create cheap knockoffs of our products, we wouldn't get paid for our engineering and wouldn't be able to invest what we invest," Ellison said in a Fox News interview, justifying their demand of about $6 Billions in shares as compensation to the extensive loss.