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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 08:23 AM EDT |
My guess is that the Google lawyers are staging their cards to play them at the
right time. If they played all their cards in the first salvo at Ellison, they
would have little or nothing when he comes back ( which I believe is scheduled
for today.
There is more than enough ammunition to fire at the right time.
They clearly caught Ellison contradicting himself when he was asked if Java was
free and he responded " I am not sure" when in his deposition he
responded yes.
I expect that the Google Lawyers will systematically destroy Ellison's
credibility and will leave the jury with the impression that he (Oracle) are
misrepresenting the facts. The more that Google can discredit each core witness,
the weaker the case for Oracle will become. It also gives the judge the facts to
make his rulings.
I have not seen anything from Oracle that can use to turn the tables in their
favour.
In our wildest dreams, this case could be over well before the scheduled
duration.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 08:57 AM EDT |
I think the answer from Ellison was just crudely phrased. What he meant was to
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 09:20 AM EDT |
IBM's Java license was up in 2015, and a deal was struck was
that Oracle gave IBM some terms good enough to package IBM's
withdrawal from the Harmony/Apache implementation as a
prerequisite. Job done, next target to bury the Harmony
project was Google.
I think fundamentally, Oracle is keen to monetise what Sun
gave away for free. Their difficulty is they have nothing to
bring to the table to incent Google to hand over control of
their own destiny. Other than this bodge of a legal
position.
Interesting thing is that one of Oracle's big "go to
markets" is in the Big Data arena, where Cloudera are a key
partner. Cloudera's implementation of Hadoop relies on good
will from Google not to assert their MapReduce patents. I
sometimes wonder if Google would ever choose to impose use
restrictions on that licensing agreement in a way unhelpful
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 12:10 PM EDT |
Let them make their case
Let them build their house of cards
Undermine them on cross
Be Patient. Wait your Turn.
Van Nest said it during opening.
"They go first, keep an open mind"
AFAIR
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