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...to paraphrase Linus Torvalds.

I'm trying to look at this from the perspective of a juror who had no clue about any of this as little as 3 weeks ago.

I seriously doubt the abilities for them to grasp the subtleties of things those of us here, with considerably more insight and direct experience with programming, have been wrestling with and debating since the suit was first brought. The judge himself hasn't come to grips with just what defines an API or how the overall Java platform is interwoven.

It's far too easy for the Jury to compare the 37 packages between Java and Android, which no doubt would possess a measure of similarity. (Looks pretty much the same to me, Maude. Put down 'YES' and we can go home.)

However, this completely ignores the fact that Android is based on *Harmony* AND the fact that Harmony's license *does* allow fully open use. (I suspect the only reason Apache and GNU weren't sued, was they don't have a ton of money...some of which, at least for Harmony, came *from* Oracle itself.)

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