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Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 07:53 AM EDT
You guys are so funny. A better idea of the status? Hahahaha. Here's Rachel King, a relevant sampling:
@FOSSpatents Ha, yes, @GinnyLaRoe just corrected me in the press room. Either way, we'll all have to get our wardrobes ready.

@CalebGarling @GinnyLaRoe by the time the inevitable appeal at the 9th Circuit rolls around, we can get a #OraclevGoogle sartorial blog up...

@GinnyLaRoe Confirmed: Safra Catz is wearing St. John today. We might get another @Chanel sighting later this week.

During recess, I tried to get a better look at the gold buttons on Safra Catz's jacket, but they told me nothing about what brand it is....

Google is calling up a lot of lawyers that have been warming the bench. In other news Safra Catz has a fitted black blazer with gold buttons....

OK, the term "sideshow" just got added to the #OraclevGoogle drinking game. This is ridiculous already....

It's official and now undisputed: Michelle Obama is the best dressed first lady on the planet. ...

For the *real* news item of the day: #Googacle Style Award goes not to councel but to reporter @ZDNetRachel. http://pic.twitter.com/hP3kjEvr...

@GinnyLaRoe The closest I'll prob ever get to being a red carpet reporter would be asking Safra Catz: Who are you wearing?? ...

@GinnyLaRoe Looking at Safra Catz's jacket again, that's definitely got to be @Chanel....

@GinnyLaRoe & I should have started a sartorial blog for #OraclevGoogle. Well, perhaps there will be a retrial and we'll get another chance....

I have to say that I do like Safra's bright red fuzzy blazer. I wonder if that's some kind of subliminal Oracle branding.

Etc. Now, if she got all the news in too, that'd be fine. But she didn't. If what you are interested in is the flavor of the day, fine. Not a problem. But that's not journalism, which is why it was to me a little silly. Get the news. Who, what, when, where, why. After that, then who wore what if it interests you. But here's her coverage of the jury verdict, and notice this part:
The decision came after the jury almost delivered a partial verdict on Friday afternoon last week. They were unable to agree unanimously on one of the four questions in the jury instructions.

At issue in this phase of the trial was whether 37 Java APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) were subject to copyright. Oracle argued that Google copied the APIs from the Java core libraries, which would render 11,000 printed pages on the specifications, into the Android core libraries.

Oracle’s lawyers compared the creation of APIs to writing a piece of music, going further to say that API’s are not just “ideas,” but creative works that requires significant expertise and time.

Google argued that there was no copyright infringement because Google didn’t copy any unauthorized Java code, and that the Internet giant made fair use of the Java language APIs in Android and that Sun publicly approved Android’s use of Java.

This part of the trial was NOT about whether APIs are copyrightable. That is an issue of law, not fact, and that is why only the judge can rule on that.

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