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if only the jury had heard some of this earlier...
Authored by: cbc on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 02:57 PM EDT
Oracle opened. They desired to show two things. "We own it" and
"Google stole it".
Hopefully the jury now sees the "iffy-ness" of the former and the
nothingness of the latter.

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if only the jury had heard some of this earlier...
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 04:04 PM EDT
This is the age-old education question of whether one should be taught a subject
before knowing why they need it, or if it is easier to learn a subject after
they need it. Without the background of the trial, I suspect the jury's eyes
would have glazed over during the Java education if it came first.

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if only the jury had heard some of this earlier...
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 05:31 PM EDT
Remember, this came late in the day and will be remembered well.

Tufty

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if only the jury had heard some of this earlier...
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 06:24 PM EDT
You don't show your best trick at the beginning of the show

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if only the jury had heard some of this earlier...
Authored by: tknarr on Saturday, April 28 2012 @ 03:14 AM EDT

I suspect Google wanted it at the end. As you said, the jury's going to remember most clearly what was said at the end, and least clearly the stuff said earliest. So going into the jury room their clearest memory will be this last clear explanation with examples, and when they're considering the question of whether the APIs are something that can be copyrighted the thought in their heads will be "But how could you claim copyright on that?".

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