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He's giving Oracle the chance to make their case. | 234 comments | Create New Account
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He's giving Oracle the chance to make their case.
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 06:56 AM EDT


The $7.4Billion is a fact,and irrelevant one in this case.

The license issue is in dispute and is before the court.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

He's giving Oracle the chance to make their case.
Authored by: PJ on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 08:16 AM EDT
Keep in mind that judges are human too. He'll
call them like he sees them. And sometimes he'll
be wrong. There's a ruling from yesterday Mark
will be telling you about later today where, I think,
he got some things really wrong, but he doesn't
realize it currently. Later, he may. Perhaps
Google will give him opportunities to reexamine
the issue. If not, the appeals process is in place.
The whole system is based on the reality that humans
hardly ever get things perfectly right every time.

The idea is to respect the process, and it usually
does work out, except when the fix is in. And here,
it clearly is not. This is an honest and experienced
judge. But he isn't a Java expert, let's put it
that way, so he's learning as it goes.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

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