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Corrections here please
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 06:04 PM EDT
Taobi should be TIOBE.

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Witness name
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 06:17 PM EDT
The witness changes his name just before the cross
examination, which has to be the height of misdirection.

William lee / Bob lee. Not sure which is right.

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  • Fixed - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 06:18 PM EDT
    • Fixed - Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 01:39 PM EDT
  • Witness name - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 04:50 AM EDT
Interface as Contract
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 06:34 PM EDT
PJ, your description of the term contract from a programemr's POV is correct. We sometimes use the term "design by contract". And wouldn't you know it, someone trademarked that term! Details: Design_by_contract Wikipedia article

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....thusing blunting the value .....
Authored by: jsoulejr on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 07:22 PM EDT
n/t

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Discussion about wording of when to say "prosecution rests". => "Plaintiff rests"
Authored by: red floyd on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 10:18 PM EDT
This is a civil case, not criminal. There is no prosecution, only the plaintiff
and defendant.

---
I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a *CITIZEN* of the United
States of America.

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Stanford Professors have helped Oracle before
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 11:58 PM EDT
"Judge: Do you have a truce to not talk about how much expert witnesses are paid?"

Interesting that it was asked, and that Google never followed up. Maybe Judge Alsup remembers a previous case ("Re Oracle Corp. Derivative Litigation (824 A.2d 917 (2003))"), as summarized on Larry Ellison's wikipedia page:

"Ellison's charitable donations to Stanford University were an issue in that case with respect to the independence of two Stanford professors who evaluated the merits of the case for Oracle"

Ouch!

Anyone have a better URL for that case?

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GPL: It says the code can be reused and modified, so long as the modifications are given back
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 03:38 AM EDT
This is quite wrong as a characterization of the GPL. The point is "so
lang as the modifications are _handed_ _on_", in source form, and under the
same terms and conditions.

The restrictions of the GPL concern _redistribution_, namely the form that
further _recipients_ of the software are entitled to receive. There is _no_
interaction with the _source_ required, so it is nonsensical to say "are
given back".

The point of a _public_ license is that the special position of the copyright
holder is exhausted in his right to enforce the license (spelled out by
copyright law rather than the license itself), but he does not get any more
access or rights to derived versions of the software than anybody else. In
particular no right to get anything "given back". There are no
strings attached in the backward direction. Only forward.

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soething -> something
Authored by: erem on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 05:34 AM EDT
"I don't want to have to take time over soething that's
invalid as a matter of law."

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"Dudley" -> Doug Lea
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 08:27 AM EDT
>About the "Dudley" packages

They are talking about the java.util.concurrent package
written by Doug Lea:

http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/classes/EDU/oswego/cs/dl/util/conc
urrent/intro.html

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"Taobi" -> "TIOBE"
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 01:31 PM EDT
Refers to this:
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

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New paragraph missed
Authored by: Nemesis on Saturday, April 28 2012 @ 06:35 PM EDT

The relevant fragment quoted below:(... used to indicate part not quoted.)

... It seems invalid. Boies: I'm not sure...

Should have been as quoted below:

...It seems invalid.

Boies: I'm not sure ...

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