Reeling from a heavy blow in its long-running copyright battle with Oracle, Google has quietly published more details of its Fuchsia operating system. The OS, designed on a non-Linux kernel, could be a long term strategy to help Google shift to a platform without exposure to the same claims of infringement, though while IoT developers might be drawn by its promised performance, to shift all the Google IoT devices from Android to Fuchsia would be an impossible task. Google has been ordered to pay Oracle damages for infringing on the Java API (application programming interface). Oracle reckons this figure should be close to $8.8bn, but a separate case will decide that final amount. The most recent ruling rejected a 2016…