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Judge Alsup is very thorough and wants no successful appeal of his decision | 697 comments | Create New Account
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Judge Alsup is very thorough and wants no successful appeal of his decision
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 05:43 PM EDT
I'm not so sure that the judge really is doing his legwork thoroughly enough.
If he were, he would have sought expert written advice from independent
technical experts in the field and from professional engineering bodies, quite
separate from any expert witnesses invited by the two legal teams.

If he had done this first, he wouldn't be entertaining any reference to
"SSO" from either legal team. After all, it's total nonsense from a
computing perspective, as "SSO" is not even in the computing
vocabulary.

No doubt you'll say "That's not how the legal process works", but that
just underlines my point. The legal process here has prevented standard
practice, technical knowledge and commonsense in this field from overruling the
lawyers in an area which is outside the competence of those implementing the
process, judge included.

As a result, we've had to endure a properly working legal process that bears
virtually no relationship to anything that a professional computing expert can
even recognize.

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