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I hope there will be expert testimony of value in the damages phase - brilliant comedy :) | 91 comments | Create New Account
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Of COURSE white space is valuable!
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 14 2012 @ 12:05 PM EDT
The blank space defines important parts of the SSO.

The blank space can even be MORE important than the textual components.

This why Sun/Oracle only placed these invaluable blank spaces on the CD when it
registered for copyright!

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Of course, blank lines and brackets being worth anything is still ludicrous n/t
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 14 2012 @ 12:28 PM EDT
Without the brackets in the right places, Android would not
function at all! All of Android depends on those brackets
so all of Android profits belong to Oracle!!!!

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I hope there will be expert testimony of value in the damages phase - brilliant comedy :)
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 14 2012 @ 12:33 PM EDT
I would *love* to hear someone try to claim that 9 lines of
mainly whitespace and boilerplate code that was admitted to
be of 101 or highschool level is worth anything.

It's a shame that there are no videos of the court, because
that would make for high comedy.

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Of course, blank lines and brackets being worth anything is still ludicrous n/t
Authored by: DannyB on Monday, May 14 2012 @ 02:16 PM EDT
If blank lines weren't important, then programmers wouldn't put them in there.

Just like the jokes in comments.

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