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Authored by: PJ on Thursday, May 31 2012 @ 09:06 AM EDT

I doubt there are any peers looking at this
case and admiring BS&F. And no, the strategy
was set by David Boies himself, according to
his statement to the media before the trial
began. Ellison isn't responsible for that.
When it started, Oracle thought it was a plain
vanilla patent case and hoped to get some
money.

But it morphed under creative lawyering hands,
and lo and behold, BS&F came up with a plan
that very much matched SCO's strategy, one
that is designed to block FOSS from being
able to emulate or replicate the functionality
in other programs.

The student of Michael A. Jacobs who served
as a volunteer reporter for us told me that
he said in class that this case could change
how FOSS is developed.

But that wasn't what Oracle had in mind in the
beginning. So why Boies wants to keep pursuing
that ugly dream is unknown to me. So I'll leave
that to your imaginations, and if they wander
to the NW, you'll find my thoughts there too.

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change how FOSS is developed - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 31 2012 @ 01:47 PM EDT

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