Reeling from a heavy blow in the courts, Google has quietly published more details on its Fuchsia operating system. The OS, designed on a non-Linux kernel, could be a long-term strategy to help Google avoid IP or copyright claims, and while IoT developers might be drawn in by its promised performance, to shift the entire Android ecosystem from Android to Fuchsia seems like an impossible task. Currently, Google has been ordered to pay Oracle damages, for infringing on that API. 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 decision that Google’s use of the copyrighted Java API was acceptable under fair use, and…